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It's for scientists to lay out the data and lay out what they think, and then it's for the public to make up its own mind. We don't live in a priesthood where some small group imposes its views on other people - that's not the way that science works, and it's not the way a democratic society should work. Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
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The pending home sales data feed right into the hands of those who expect the Fed to end its interest-rate hikes.
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[N]o scientist likes to be criticized. ... But you don't reply to critics: "Wait a minute, wait a minute; this is a really good idea. I'm very fond of it. It's done you no harm. Please don't attack it." That's not the way it goes. The hard but just rule is that if the ideas don't work, you must throw them away. Don't waste any neurons on what doesn't work. Devote those neurons to new ideas that better explain the data. Valid criticism is doing you a favor. Carl Sagan
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With insufficient data it is easy to go wrong.
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Perhaps... some day the precision of the data will be brought so far that the mathematician will be able to calculate at his desk the outcome of any chemical combination, in the same way, so to speak, as he calculates the motions of celestial bodies. Antoine Lavoisier
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We've got some pretty heavy data this week and I know people are holding off a little bit.
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We've made it hard for ourselves because we didn't perform as well as we should have. Our engineers are digesting data now and will be discussing options well into the night I would think.
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We have to look at the event data recorder in more detail. Mark Rosenker
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With the exception of the backward-looking Q4 GDP report, the data released today surprised to the downside. David Rosenberg
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Where there is no temptation, there is no virtue. Agnes Repplier
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Our wealth is often a snare to ourselves, and always a temptation to others. Charles Caleb Colton
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One of the important things about temptation is, if I'm going to deal with it I'm going to have to recognize, this is an area of weakness in my life. I have been tempted here before and before and before. Charles Stanley
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Has there not been, sometimes, this temptation to do a great deal for Christ, but not to live a great deal with Christ? Charles Spurgeon
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Ever notice that the whisper of temptation can be heard farther than the loudest call to duty. Earl Wilson
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Temptation: the fiend at my elbow. William Shakespeare
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Terrible is the temptation to be good. Bertolt Brecht
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Temptation to behave is terrible.
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The temptation to quit will be greatest just before you are about to succeed. Bob Parsons
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If someone said to me that you can have three wishes, my first would have been to get into racing, my second to be in Formula 1, my third to drive for Ferrari. Gilles Villeneuve
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Sports formed me. I was always decently skilled but lacked size, so I had to resort to using my skill versus my power. I strategically play golf because that's all I can do. It's the same on the basketball court. I try to get open and shoot it. Or I use the open space on the soccer field. Zach Johnson
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I see that idea that we need a new form as something critical. I mean, we do need to invent and not be benchmarking all the time. That's important to me. William McDonough
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The bright future is that readers are accepting more varied forms of stories. Chuck Palahniuk
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The outside influence in the form of Argentine auction, which matched expectations, helped the market. And tomorrow's futures expiry weighed slightly, as usual.
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I was trying to be a writer, and I was kind of getting sidetracked, so I started doing cartoons as a form of expression.
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Books and all forms of writing have always been objects of terror to those who seek to suppress the truth. Wole Soyinka
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I try to be objective about technology. Agnostic, in a sense. Whatever personal opinions I form tend to have more to do with what we find to do with the new thing. William Gibson
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There are two different forms of storytelling: Novels tend to come from the inside of a character, and movies tend to look at them from the outside in relation to others in their world. Walter Kirn