Cutting off fundamental, curiosity-driven science is like eating the seed corn. We may have a little more to eat next winter but what will we plant so we and our children will have enough to get through the winters to come?
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Related Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD Next generations will not know what is to have childhood. DANIEL MELGAçO The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have. CRAIG GROESCHEL Destiny consist in the moments that we experienced, and not in the choices we have to do. DANIEL MELGAçO We have a right to life, not on it. DANIEL MELGAçO We've got exactly what we need to fulfill our destiny! ABHISHEK KUMAR The disturbing truth about science communication is that we have theories and ways of delivering mes... KYLE HILL You would think over the course of a winter -- actually three winters, two winters -- that guys woul... DUSTY BAKER I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made ... RALPH WALDO EMERSON But if there hasn't been any corn on shelves of grocery stores, maybe people will be ready to eat co... ANN HOLT What will happen if we go to 0 day? ... Everything has been wipe out from the techno... DEYTH BANGER The words you can’t find, you borrow. We read to know we’re not alone. We read because w... GABRIELLE ZEVIN We are far from perfect but willing to be different. CRAIG GROESCHEL In the 1970s, we had Carl Sagan, and he was so suave with his turtleneck and his tweed jacket. And h... GREG GRAFFIN Atheism is more than just the knowledge that gods do not exist, and that religion is either a mistak... EMMETT F. FIELDS 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give... JAMES C. DOBSON To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to tr... JUNE JORDAN The British people have spoken, and there will be a different future for the U.K. - different but a ... THERESA MAY We may be six months on from the earthquake and through a mercifully mild winter, but there is still... DAN TOOLE In every passing moment that is not appreciated time cannot give it back to you. So in moments of id... GARY F EVANS... Not only will we be able to stay here, but we will be able to expand our programs and serve even mor... BARRY HALPERIN Tonight's a tough one with all that anticipation. It's kind of hard to fall asleep, and you get a li... BILL DEMONG To apply equal treatment is not enough, ... We have to provide our response equitably. Some will get... NORMAN FRANCIS I have my meals delivered... you know what I like? Chicken and rice... But the problem with being a ... HUGH DOUGLAS We may claim to believe in God, but we don't want to believe so much that it makes us different. CRAIG GROESCHEL The more we give, the more we reap the benefits of feeling good in helping others. We are all capabl... ANGIE KARAN I turn and kick with the first one and feel myself being lifted and thrown towards the beach. It's l... MARK SMITH It's the imperfections that make things beautiful JENNY HAN If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th... GARY F EVANS... If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y... GARY F EVANS... See the world as it is, not as you wish it would be E. LOCKHART It's a lie to think that you are not good enough. It's a lie to think that you are not beautiful. It... DISON ARNIBAL Weirdly enough, the more we give away, the richer we become. CRAIG GROESCHEL As a team, we have a little more pressure, but I think we are going to pull it off. I'd like to pin ... IAN HEINISCH Not everyone has the time to be normal. LJUPKA CVETANOVA It may have come from outside purchases, ... It may have originated in the plant, but we don't think... JAMES HUDSON Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little. THOMAS A. DORGAN Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little THOMAS ALOYSIUS DORGAN In the second leg we're going to have to have much more of a cutting edge and seal off our goal. We ... PAUL LE GUEN Knowing we only have eight players, we have to take it up a couple of notches. But I think that will... AMBER BACON We will put ourselves in better position to have long-term success if we take a year off. We have th... MARK MCGUIRE We believe if people focus on what they're eating and not how much they're eating, they will have a ... DR. NEAL BARNARD We have come to a turning point in the road. If we turn to the right mayhap our children and our chi... CHARLES SPURGEON Sometimes we exist long enough to lead the next generation; other times, only to plant a seed and le... A.J. DARKHOLME This is like eating your seed corn, if you pay out more than you earn. BEN M. RICE We were sitting there watching the coffin being nailed shut, and what was inside was imagination and... BRUCE MURRAY We don't seem to get the really cold winters any more. We seem to get a lot of wet winters, I suppos... GRAHAM GOUGH When you're trying to get off the losing track, every game is a big game. Our success is going to co... MARK WINTER Those who eat too much or eat too little, who sleep too much or sleep too little, will not succeed i... BHAGAVAD GITA With the serious energy problems we will face this winter, what DOE is proposing is like shutting do... DAN REICHER If we, as Idahoans, allow that plant to come into the Magic Valley, we have got more pollution comin... DON JESSER I think our guys fought hard. We know we have to be a little more flexible next time. We didn't make... MARK RILEY It did not have agronomic value but was attractive. He entered the plant in the AAS trials, and it w... JIM NAU Now we have one chance in some case, as in this body but in other body we will have + one because we... DEYTH BANGER We are going into a proper studio on Thursday (August 1 with 192 faders which is a lot of choice a b... THOM YORKE The Bible consistently and directly indicates that when we give generously, we're serving, honoring,... CRAIG GROESCHEL We don't know how it's going to be structured, but it will help more people get through emergencies ... MIKE BURGESS Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality. -Carl Sa... CARL SAGAN We haven't come up with an exact plan of where the money will be spent. We have to weigh our physica... JEDD GOULD The market is convinced we have enough gas. Even if you were to assume a return to normal weather, w... BRUNO STANZIALE It may well be that the world is denied miracle after miracle and triumph after triumph because we w... WILLIAM BARCLAY It requires so much more than knowledge to follow through on what we may know is right for us. We ar... LASHAN DIA GRAY We have this backdrop of the Fed raising rates and a growing fear that there's more to come based on... JOSEPH MCALINDEN If we don't go into any more debt this year, we may not have to dip into the fund balance. The next ... BARBARA WOODALL There is a fundamental question we all have to face. How are we to live our lives; by what principle... H. JACKSON BROWN, JR. So, we just went through a process of trial and error to get it to do what we wanted. Next time, we'... TIM ALEXANDER So long as there are no more major skeletons to come out, we may have reached a low point. The recov... PETER COGLIATTI We(Pakistan) will eat grass, even go hungry, but we will get one of our own (Atom bomb).... We have ... ZULFIKAR ALI BHUTTO What we have to do is get the plant inspected. GENE DETROYER We predict, there will be a large deficit of corn in the world, and we have the opportunity to cover... FADEL MUHAMMAD PEACE IS THE OBJECTIVE TO WAR, BUT THE BLOOD RUNNETH STILL NATALIE URQUIETA We tell them about Earth science, astronomy, plant science and marine science. But what we don't do ... HARRY ORF We have no protection against it and that is the beginning of a pandemic. We don't know what the nex... DR. JUDITH HARTNER We will offer a controlled environment for people who want to come and walk. It will be warm enough ... GARY WARR Science is proving more and more each day what some spiritual teachers have been teaching for thousa... HOWARD MANN We are still on standby, ... With the storm this close off the coast, we have no choice. Forecasters... DOUG WRIGHT You have enough time to do everything God wants you to do. CRAIG GROESCHEL Perhaps, if science is clever enough to see, it will realize that religion may not be too far off wi... ROBERT LANZA Our strength is that we have depth, so we should contend. We have athletes that are capable of finis... DAVE UHRICH It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees. GEORGE ELIOT It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses, we must plant more roses. GEORGE ELIOT We will pretty much count on our defense to get it done, ... We would like to win the division and c... ANGELA TAYLOR Don't do it, because you have to do it.
Do it, because you love to do it. PRITISH PATTANAIK To learn, sometimes you have to feel the fool. JEFFREY FRY The love you get, is equal to the love you give. BEN OAK It will not end this year. It will not end next year. We may have it for many years to come. So Afgh... HAMID KARZAI The only parts that will be closed off are the ones that will be undergoing the changes. You may get... TONY WARNER Obviously, Nate is important and we'll see what happens there, but we think people will fill the spa... DEREK ALLEN Over the next few days we will identify what caused the problem and what we should do to fix it. We ... DAVID KNOX Everybody wants to cut off the limb to to deal with the problem. You can’t just keep cutting off l... BOBBY F. KIMBROUGH JR. You have the fruit of the spirit in you, because when Christ comes in you everything he is and has c... JOYCE MEYER We are going to take a couple of days to digest everything before we put out a full statement and de... STEVE MCCLAREN Our confidence is not in what we have, but He who freely gave us what we have. If God's will is in y... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR We have to look deeply to see how we grow our food, so we can eat in ways that preserve our collecti... THICH NHAT HANH The next period [after Israel's withdrawal] will be difficult. We have to be strong and wait... Ther... AHMED QUREI I scheduled a tough schedule because I felt like the girls needed to be challenged. They have come a... IAIN JONES Chewing tiger nut is good exercise for the mouth, i love its nutty taste SOTONYE ANGA Life is such a precious gift. Whatever life throws at us, if we could just learn to get through that... STEPHEN BALDWIN But what is more, if we have succeeded in adding to the basic understanding of our universe and ours... HALDAN KEFFER HARTLINE The scientific method gives us
information by testing and repeating observable things so that we
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