Ben Goldacre
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to start by assuming that it is impossib... LEWIS N. ROE Using the scientific knowledge that we
currently possess, we can take simple logical steps, backed b... LEWIS N. ROE This genre may be appealing in this scientific age because people are interested in belief beyond th... GLENN SPARKS BEN GOLDACRE How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS In my grandfather's lab, scientists did independent research, and peers reviewed and commented o... TAMMY BALDWIN A Ritual to Read to Each OtherWILLIAM STAFFORD ARLO GUTHRIE He has a gift for making complicated ideas simple and to express them in a way that has emotional im... BERT FIELDS LAILAH GIFTYAKITA NICHOLAS SPARKS STEPHEN CHBOSKY NICHOLAS SPARKS NICHOLAS SPARKS HARPER LEE HARPER LEE STEVE MARTIN ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH DENNIS PRAGER Let it be understood, in the first place, that a science fiction story must be an exposition of a sc... HUGO GERNSBACK This data is particularly interesting because several studies have suggested that women are not moti... DR. SAM SPERON MARIE CURIE BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA DANIEL GOLDSTEIN As far back as history records people thinking, thinking people
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I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib... 
If a scientist sidesteps their scientific peers, and chooses to take an apparently changeable, frigh... 
Everyone has a responsibility to not only tolerate another person's point of view, but also to a... 
Dare to follow your own paths.
Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said:
To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting. 
As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the... 
You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on... 
You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them. 
Theories, for me, are just about freeing your mind. It doesn't mean the theory is going to work ... 
The earth is an arena of champions. We are all champions. We all did overcome millions of potential ... 
All of creation, in the biblical view, was to ultimately prepare the way for the creation of man. Bu... 
Scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it. It mus... 
Simple minded people find simple solutions to their problems 
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Moreover, only a strong and united scientific opinion imposing the intrinsic value of scientific pro... 
No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist. 
Simple ingredients prepared in a simple way - that's the best way to take your everyday cooking ... 
Even those who do not, or cannot, avail themselves of a scientific education, choose to benefit from... 
Lead with your own participation in a way that you believe will create value and will invite others ... 
If you have a pair of contradictory ideas, discuss all the possible consequences with your peers. 
All of us are in in shock, ... This is a senseless and unexplainable act that goes beyond the pale. ... 
The refusal to acknowledge the scientific value of embryonic stem cell research is one more tragic m... 
How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine."
Scientific discovery and scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in purs... 
Scientific discovery and scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in purs... 
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Reach out and help others. If you have the power to make someone happy, do it. Be a vessel, be the c... 
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You release the pain of the past and press on. It's a new day, and God is doing a new thing. He want... 
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Rajneeshism is creating a Noah's Ark of consciousness, remaining centered exactly in the middle ... 
Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full. 
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It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another perso... 
It's a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year. 
It's a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year 
If God give you strength and courage, don't use it to intimidate people or overpower them, rather us... 
It is my earnest desire that some of you should carry on this scientific work and keep for your ambi... 
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It's a great feeling to be recognized by your peers. It's an even better feeling to be welco... 
It's cool to be recognised by your peers. 
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Teaching needs an ecosystem that supports evidence-based practice. It will need better systems to di... 
Intelligent people tend to talk about the facts. They don't sit around and call each other names... 
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It took capitalism half a century to come back from the Great Depression. 
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Distrust of government isn't baseless cynicism. It's realism. 
The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where the... 
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The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly. 
When you overpay small people you frighten them. They know that their merits or activities entitle t... 
We are more than just flesh and bones. There's a certain spiritual nature and something of the m... 
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This figure that thou here seest put,
It was for gentle Shakespeare cut,
Wherein the graver ha... 
A third Cato has dropped from the skies. 
A pauper traveller will sing before a beggar. 
Happiness is a journey not a destination. 
Success is a journey, not a destination. 
No one will do it for you. 
I try and reduce myself to an almost blank slate and hope to God that I am creative. 
There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere. There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tort... 
You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot 
Force works on servile natures, not the free. 
Opportunities pop up for everybody all of the time. It's the way that we progress. It's whether or n... 
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Bad people excuse their faults; wise people leave them. 
The greatest waste in the world is the difference between what we are and what we could become. 
No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may ... 
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I play golf with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games. 
Running for money doesn't make you run fast. It makes you run first. 
No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conv... 
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Commerce is one of the daughters of Fortune, inconsistent and deceitful as her mother. she chooses h... 
There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence. 
Most plans are just inaccurate predictions. 
People who get through life dependent on other people's possessions are always the first to lecture ... 
Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towar... 