How in heaven's name can a nation with a $1 trillion surplus threaten so much scientific research so vital to its future?

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DAVID GERGEN

if it doesn't come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
don't do it.
unless it...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI He's standing in a cluster of black T-shirts - together, they look like the wilted petals on a singl...
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LAWRENCE LINDSEY

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Germany is a great nation only because its people have so much Polish blood in their veins.
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PRITISH PATTANAIK People who pretend to be your friend lead you up a garden path by saying everything that you want to...
GARY F EVANS...

A nation is not a budget, no matter how much ideologues want it to be so.
STEVEN WEBER

I wrote to you for a year and you never wrote back. T
rang you over and over again and you woul...
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MELINA MARCHETTA So, in other words, how you respond to a sculpture, how a viewer sees the sculpture, is vital.
ANTHONY CARO

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PETER SO Having those fumbles in the last game was shocking, ... This isn't something the coaches are ignorin...
SO COLEMAN Cheung Kong was up HK$4.75 in London trade on Friday, so Hong Kong investors are catching up.
JAMES SO Even though the interest rate rise had been discounted, a half percentage point rise in local intere...
JAMES SO The index is revolving around 16,000 and trying to establish further support at that level.
JAMES SO The whole psychology of the market has changed since the U.S. unemployment figures on Friday. All th...
JAMES SO Sentiment on junior high-tech stocks and China high-tech stocks is quite negative for the time being...
JAMES SO The 13,500 level is the next crucial support level but I don't think we'll see the HSI falling that ...
JAMES SO Interest-rate sensitive stocks are doing a bit better today because the core consumer price index da...
JAMES SO After rallying to 18,000 and then being sold off the market is now trying to re-establish a level of...
JAMES SO As far as the team is concerned our target will be to win the World Series. For me personally I want...
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FENNEL HUDSON

Nothing as mundane as mere evidence can be allowed to threaten a vision so deeply satisfying.
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LEWIS N. ROE

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DAPHNE DU MAURIER

Don't be afraid of failure. This is the way to succeed.”
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JAVAD VAIDI

I am so smart! I am so smart! S-M-R-T! I mean, S-M-A-R-T!
DAN CASTELLANETA Curious how even a little time can alter so much.
ROBIN JARVIS A country with such a huge economic power will no doubt lead most countries in scientific research a...
LU YONGXIANG Life is a paradiddle...

R-L-RR-L-R-LL...
R-L-R-L-RR-L-R-L-R-LL...
R-L-R-L-R-L...
ROSS R. MASON

It's all right; it's not so much fun any more.
DAVID O. SELZNICK I was making so much money I didn't care. I didn't know what to do with the money.
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One of the big breakthroughs, I think for me, was reading Robert A. Heinlein's four rules of wri...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN

Not all who wander are lost.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Elves seldom give unguarded advice, for advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wis...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN It's the job that's never started takes longest to finish.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN I wish life was not so short, he thought. languages take such a time, and so do all the things one w...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN Still round the corner there may wait,
A new road or a secret gate.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN Remember what Bilbo used to say: It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step ont...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has go...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN Then the enchantment became more dreamlike, until he felt that an endless river of swelling gold and...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN I dislike Allegory - the conscious and intentional allegory - yet any attempt to explain the purport...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN Whether you're a history buff or a fantasy fan, Druon's epic will keep you turning pages. Th...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their ending!
J. R. R. TOLKIEN All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does no...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN An awful lot of fantasy, and even some great fantasy, falls into the mistake of assuming that a good...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN As Faulkner says, all of us have the capacity in us for great good and for great evil, for love but ...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Over the years, more than one reviewer has described my fantasy series, 'A Song of Ice and Fire&...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I had an encyclopedia with a list of flags in the back, so I would look at all these flags of China ...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Middle English is an exciting field - almost uncharted, I begin to think, because as soon as one tur...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN It is plain indeed that in spite of later estrangement Hobbits are relatives of ours: far nearer to ...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN He had a feeling that the answer was quite different and that he ought to know it, but he could no...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN The distinction between literary and genre fiction is stupid and pernicious. It dates back to a feud...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Short cuts make long delays.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

How in heaven's name can a nation with a $1 trillion surplus threaten so much scientific research so vital to its future?

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