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Minorities have a right to appeal to the Constitution as a shield against such oppression.


James K. Polk

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IAN K. SMITH Death just comes, not happiness. Because when you're trying to find happiness, you're trying...
IAN K. SMITH Pleasure does not equal happiness; it's part of happiness.
IAN K. SMITH A lot of people who are overweight - not everyone, but a lot of people - are dealing with issues suc...
IAN K. SMITH Men don't avoid successful women because they're jealous; they often do it to avoid being in...
IAN K. SMITH The idea behind diet confusion is, you have to keep your body off-kilter. So by changing the type of...
IAN K. SMITH People have to realize that dieting is not a sprint, it's a marathon. If you celebrate the small...
IAN K. SMITH I think happiness is a combination of pleasure, engagement and meaningfulness.
IAN K. SMITH But if we can manage it so people don't have things forced on them that they don't want, I t...
K. ERIC DREXLER Today we have big, crude instruments guided by intelligent surgeons, and we have little, stupid mole...
K. ERIC DREXLER It's a lot easier to see, at least in some cases, what the long-term limits of the possible will...
K. ERIC DREXLER You can find academic and industrial groups doing some relevant work, but there isn't a focus on...
K. ERIC DREXLER The other advantage is that in conventional manufacturing processes, it takes a long time for a fact...
K. ERIC DREXLER The really big difference is that what you make with a molecular machine can be completely precise, ...
K. ERIC DREXLER An international race in the relevant technologies is getting under way at this point, not necessari...
K. ERIC DREXLER After realizing that we would eventually be able to build molecular machines that could arrange atom...
K. ERIC DREXLER My work at MIT had focused on what we could build in space once we had inexpensive space transportat...
K. ERIC DREXLER On the molecular scale, you find it's reasonable to have a machine that does a million steps per...
K. ERIC DREXLER And that because the moving parts are a million times smaller than the ones we're familiar with,...
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