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Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute.


G. B. Stern

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ANDY STERN Being Canadian, we get excited about it. We take a lot of pride in wearing the Canada jersey. A lot ...
ADAM STERN He's talked with a number of environmentalists nationally. We look forward to having a continued dis...
ERIC STERN I think that players play, and they compete, and it's not about incentives.
DAVID STERN New Horizons is a very high-tech, small, roughly 1,000-pound spacecraft with the most powerful batte...
ALAN STERN Just as a Chihuahua is still a dog, these ice dwarfs are still planetary bodies.
ALAN STERN It's very hard to motivate yourself and others with only one goal - particularly if it's com...
ALAN STERN I thought Clear Channel and companies like that were going to fight the FCC. I kept hanging around. ...
HOWARD STERN CASIS has to succeed because for it not to succeed would be a huge setback for the International Spa...
ALAN STERN Pluto is just the brightest of the many objects in the Kuiper Belt. It's a fossil relic of the forma...
ALAN STERN There is no path to citizenship for those who work hard, pay taxes and want a chance to obtain the A...
ANDY STERN