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Related GEORGE SOROS Democratic societies can no longer give religious fanatics a free hand to abuse and murder non belie... ARMSTRONG WILLIAMS ANDREW J. BERNSTEIN Democracy in Iraq will be an example that the Arab population will look to with great interest. And ... AHMED CHALABI ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES ALBERT EINSTEIN MALCOLM FORBES Any political party that includes the word 'democratic' in its name, isn't. PATRICK MURRAY Seemed that life is blunt, live it in the ways you want? For sure, yeah, just C-A-N-'T, Why? Because... YTHAM REIJAN ROSELITTLE COOGEIL The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough. BEDE JARRETT DEEPAK CHOPRA DANIEL PAULY FINLEY PETER DUNNE Bosses are no more inevitable in state and local governments than dictators are in national governme... CHARLES EDISON STEPHEN KING Common Core isn't a test, but for some people it is, because they don't like the testing pie... CAMPBELL BROWN Democracy isn't just for people in the Middle East, but Britons, too. HEATHER BROOKE SOPHIE HANNAH The only reason I always try to meet and know the parents better is because it helps me to forgive t... LOUIS JOHANNOT All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others. GIRAUDOUX All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others. CHAD A. GAMBLE Democracy has always been in crisis: democracy is all about practicing the art of bearable dissatisf... IVAN KRASTEV E. L. DOCTOROW JOSHUA OPPENHEIMER CRAIG GROESCHEL GAEL GARCIA BERNAL Modern art, in particular, seems especially vulnerable to fraud. Its abstractions are sometimes diff... PETER LANDESMAN ALICE COOPER WANGARI MAATHAI STEPHEN KING Generally, older people in their fifties, sixties, and seventies are running most countries and are ... CYNTHIA KENYON STEVE JOBS People in general romanticize nature, and they make it out to be something that it isn't because... ELISE ANDREW 'Bunk' is better than 'Wheel of Fortune' because we have a wheel, just like them, bu... KURT BRAUNOHLER Leave the problems of God to God and karma to karma. Today you're here and nothing you do will chang... JAMES CLAVELL We need to embrace every day and enjoy it as much as we can. KAREN TODD SCARPULLA JIM MORRISON In the Dobbsian view of America, the mainstream media isn't evil because it's liberal but be... JEANNE MARIE LASKAS I don't see democracy getting better. I see democracy diminishing. More rules, more legislation.... TAKI THEODORACOPULOS But are you finding monastic history a very compelling reason to live?"RACHEL HARTMAN MARK TWAIN You're afraid of getting hurt like I'm afraid to die. It doesn't mean I'm not going to live every da... VI KEELAND If you are able to show goodness to yourself, your family, friends, and maybe to some in your commun... GUDJON BERGMANN The U.S. Constitution is the basic framework for the greatest democracy on Earth. Some of my colleag... BYRON DORGAN Whenever rates go up a little bit, some people aren't going to qualify. But buyers are better off be... MICHAEL CONWAY If you look at the geographic variation in long-term unemployment, it's really striking. There a... KEVIN HASSETT People in very high places suddenly fall, and we are always surprised because we don't factor in... CARLISLE FLOYD Feudal societies don't create great cinema; we have great theatre. The egalitarian societies cre... BRIAN COX It’s not the length of the sentence, but its intrinsic strength that makes the sense only helps to... ANUJ SOMANY TONY CAMPOLO DALTON TRUMBO I know this isn't a widespread view in the Anglo Saxon world, but I believe that much of the rec... MARIO MONTI There isn't a religion on earth that isn't damaging to the human race because every one of t... SUSAN POWTER EDWARD BOND ANDREW JACKSON ANDREW JACKSON NICHOLAS KRISTOF ARISTOTLE TONY BUZAN TONY BLAIR ARISTOTLE The most significant threats are posed by live fire because of its potential to cause wildfires ... ... DAVID HENKIN MYLES MUNROE WARREN ELLIS LEONARD COHEN ALBERT EINSTEIN ALBERT EINSTEIN ALBERT EINSTEIN RONALD REAGAN NOVAK DJOKOVIC Because Jews were kicked out of every country in Europe at one time or another, and plenty of other ... ADAM MANSBACH ERNEST ISTOOK LAINI TAYLOR STELLA YOUNG The South African government, unlike a lot of African governments, isn't poor. CHARLAYNE HUNTER-GAULT The pharmaceutical industry isn't the only place where there's waste and inefficiency and pr... MARCIA ANGELL SRI MULYANI INDRAWATI MICHAEL JACKSON COLIN KAEPERNICK Boring people live boring lives. HABEEB AKANDE On some other world, possibly it is different. Better. There are clear good and evil alternatives. N... PHILIP K. DICK My liberal friends, Congressional Black Caucus members, talk about fighting for the defenseless, the... SEAN DUFFY Mars is just for some reason harder to get a mission to than other places in the solar system. ROB LOCK AKIROQ BROST Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON RAMANA PEMMARAJU I regard myself as an actress but, obviously, not in the Dame Judi Dench league. That isn't a pr... KELLY BROOK ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Now you have a new life. A new dawn. A new flower in your basket. A new ray of hope. A new chapter i... GIRDHAR JOSHI RONALD REAGAN Because in Australia there really isn't a lot to do. There aren't a lot of opportunities. RADHA MITCHELL I don't understand some of the music I hear on MTV or the radio, because they don't mention ... DARON MALAKIAN Black Lives Matter has no more to do with black issues than Students for a Democratic Society had to... DAVID A. CLARKE, JR. NESTOR KIRCHNER ANTONIO TABUCCHI For years, Lebanese have known that Palestinian camps like Nahr al-Barid and Ain al-Helwe - hopeless... RICHARD ENGEL BEN CARSON I am passionate about music - and people think because I go to places where I can enjoy music I have... RONALDINHO TRISTRAM STUART BARACK OBAMA
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NATHAN WOLFE The features of globalization have huge consequences on pandemics. It just connects us so much more ... NATHAN WOLFE If you find diseases before they've really emerged, you can control them early on, before you ge... NATHAN WOLFE Many people on our planet right now despair; they think we've reached a point where we've di... NATHAN WOLFE Don't assume that what we currently think is out there is the full story. Go after the dark matt... NATHAN WOLFE About 20 percent of the genetic information in your nose doesn't match anything that we've e... NATHAN WOLFE We know there are certain types of viruses that are nasty - influenza, for instance, is an area that... NATHAN WOLFE We've put huge resources into predicting tsunamis, hurricanes, and earthquakes. HIV/AIDS is like... NATHAN WOLFE The world can now maintain an acute infection in a way that is unprecedented in the history of life ... NATHAN WOLFE Pandemics do not occur randomly. From malaria and influenza to AIDS and SARS, the lethal microbes ha... NATHAN WOLFE There are commonalities among all the pandemics that occur, and we can learn from them. One commonal... NATHAN WOLFE The reality is: By the time swine flu got on the radar screen of global public health, it had alread... NATHAN WOLFE I work to create systems that can accurately detect pandemics early, determine their likely importan... NATHAN WOLFE With epidemics, people have been standing on the shore, waiting for the gusher to hit the ocean. But... NATHAN WOLFE We live in a world fraught with risk from new pandemics. Fortunately, we also now live in an era wit... NATHAN WOLFE Because pandemics almost always begin with the transmission of an animal microbe to a human, it'... NATHAN WOLFE We may have charted all the continents on the planet, and we may have discovered all the mammals, bu... NATHAN WOLFE As a species, I think we have no choice but to try and forecast pandemics. NATHAN WOLFE Seasonal flu is now a pandemic that lasts for years and years because you've got so many people ... NATHAN WOLFE We see new things all the time. We see new retroviruses out there - which is the category that HIV f... NATHAN WOLFE If we can provide even a few months of early warning for just one pandemic, the benefits will outwei... NATHAN WOLFE If an alien visited Earth, they would take some note of humans, but probably spend most of their tim... NATHAN WOLFE When there is an influenza threat, drop everything and focus on risks from influenza pandemics. When... NATHAN WOLFE So many people have asked me about getting their own LEGO Oscar that I submitted it to LEGO Ideas so... NATHAN SAWAYA I do hear from people at my exhibition about seeing these things made from this toy from their child... NATHAN SAWAYA I split my commission and personal work about 50 per cent each. It is important to get that balance ... 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