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Higher levels of technology allow fewer people to do more damage.


Nick Sagan

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FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE We saw a lot higher levels of frustration. There's a lot more room for improvement across the board.
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ALAN RICHARDSON TSMC is ahead in terms of technology and know-how. For the higher-quality and more technologically a...
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DAVID HUETHER We're looking to bring all of these properties up to higher levels.
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MEM FOX Prices will continue to wander higher as confirmation of the damage comes in.
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MAYNARD GUDMUNDSON Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.
LUIGI PIRANDELLO Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.
LUIGI PIRANDELLO As technology continually progresses to a higher intelligence, so do our behaviors and our reasoning...
~ANYA SUNDQUIST~ Community colleges provide higher education where people live, helping to build strong ladders of op...
THOMAS E. PEREZ Community colleges provide higher education where people live, helping to build strong ladders of op...
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GEORGE PACKER The bill will do more damage to people than good, especially in rural America. People will be forced...
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GARY MCDONALD Yields are now close to attractive levels. There is a chance of somewhat higher bond prices.
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CHRISTOPHER HAIMAN automatic scholarships to Niger Delta indigenes so as to give them higher levels of competence to en...
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BRYAN EISENBERG Indifference and neglect often do more damage than outright dislike.
JOANNE KATHLEEN ROWLING This is fascinating. In England our acid levels are much higher.
OWEN ELIAS Miracle centered gospels do more damage than good to the listeners and nation.
SUNDAY ADELAJA It has been very clear the Guard leadership has historically manipulated the figures of ready person...
JOSEPH DUNN A university should not be an island where academics attain higher and higher levels of knowledge wi...
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J. K. ROWLING Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.
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CARL SAGAN The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and c...
CARL SAGAN The sky calls to us. If we do not destroy ourselves, we will one day venture to the stars.
CARL SAGAN The near side of a galaxy is tens of thousands of light-years closer to us than the far side; thus w...
CARL SAGAN [When a religious couple wrote to Sagan about fulfilled prophecies, he wrote back in May 1996...
CARL SAGAN I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering ...
CARL SAGAN It is said that men may not be the dreams of the Gods, but rather that the Gods are the dreams of me...
CARL SAGAN The Cosmos is all that is or was or ever will be. Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us ...
CARL SAGAN The world is so exquisite with so much love and moral depth, that there is no reason to deceive ours...
CARL SAGAN Ann Druyan suggests an experiment: Look back again at the pale blue dot of the preceding chapter. Ta...
CARL SAGAN To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter
F. SAGAN We are not without empathetic terror when we open Pascal's 'Pensees' and read, 'I am...
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