If intellection and knowledge were mere passion from without, or the bare reception of extraneous and adventitious forms, then no reason could be given at all why a mirror or looking-glass should not understand; whereas it cannot so much as sensibly perceive those images which it receives and reflects to us.


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Our message of a balanced budget amendment, term limits to end career politicians, and a real plan t...
RALPH NORMAN
My candidacy is one that fits the district and fits the Mick Mulvaney-Jim DeMint philosophy.
RALPH NORMAN
I am a businessman.
RALPH NORMAN
I got into politics because businessmen should be spending your money.
RALPH NORMAN
Business creates jobs; government does not. Government creates a whole slew of jobs each time a new ...
RALPH NORMAN
I believe in the free enterprise system.
RALPH NORMAN
John Spratt did a great job of constituent service. When somebody had a problem, he would jump on it...
RALPH NORMAN
I don't think I can sell to our voters in our district that there's nothing to cut in the fe...
RALPH NORMAN
If you liked Mick Mulvaney's votes, you'll like my votes.
RALPH NORMAN
Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you.
RALPH NADER
It is fascinating to watch legislators turn away from their usual corporate grips when they hear the...
RALPH NADER
I don't think meals have any business being deductible. I'm for separation of calories and c...
RALPH NADER
This country has far more problems than it deserves and far more solutions than it applies.
RALPH NADER
Power has to be insecure to be responsive.
RALPH NADER
Once you don't vote your ideals... that has serious undermining affects. It erodes the moral bas...
RALPH NADER
The shortcomings of America's political leaders do not stop at our borders.
RALPH NADER
Every time I see something terrible, it's like I see it at age 19. I keep a freshness that way.
RALPH NADER
The corporate lobby in Washington is basically designed to stifle all legislative activity on behalf...
RALPH NADER
No presidential candidate should visit Las Vegas without condemning organized gambling.
RALPH NADER
The 'democracy gap' in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by pe...
RALPH NADER
John D. Rockefeller wanted to dominate oil, but Microsoft wants it all, you name it: cable, media, b...
RALPH NADER
The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their...
RALPH NADER
A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.
RALPH NADER
The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.
RALPH NADER
A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energ...
RALPH NADER
If God hadn't meant for us to eat sugar, he wouldn't have invented dentists.
RALPH NADER
If you think the technology is infeasible, you don't worry about what it might do and what its p...
RALPH MERKLE
Lighter computers and lighter sensors would let you have more function in a given weight, which is v...
RALPH MERKLE
Machines built by human beings they will function correctly if we provide them with a very specific ...
RALPH MERKLE
One of the issues facing us today is that there are countries where there is a serious lack of resou...
RALPH MERKLE
One of the things that we can say with confidence is that we will have much lighter, much stronger m...
RALPH MERKLE
There are certain things that are inherently scarce. For example, there is only a certain amount of ...
RALPH MERKLE
A potato can grow quite easily on a very small plot of land. With molecular manufacturing, we'll...
RALPH MERKLE
Disease and ill health are caused largely by damage at the molecular and cellular level, yet today&#...
RALPH MERKLE
One of the concepts essential to molecular manufacturing is that of a self-replicating manufacturing...
RALPH MERKLE
We can grow crops less expensively because molecular manufacturing technology is inherently low cost...
RALPH MERKLE
We see an entire planet which has many limitations.
RALPH MERKLE
If we attempt to block the development of new technology, we effectively have ensured that the most ...
RALPH MERKLE
The laws of physics should allow us to arrange things molecule by molecule and even atom by atom, an...
RALPH MERKLE
Today we see a human population of over 6 billion people, many of whom have serious medical conditio...
RALPH MERKLE
If you look at the various strategies available for dealing with a new technology, sticking your hea...
RALPH MERKLE
Many people in the world today are not starving because there is an inherent inability to produce fo...
RALPH MERKLE
Manufacturing takes place in very large facilities. If you want to build a computer chip, you need a...
RALPH MERKLE
Nanotechnology is an idea that most people simply didn't believe.
RALPH MERKLE
Nanotechnology will let us build computers that are incredibly powerful. We'll have more power i...
RALPH MERKLE
Dare to visualize a world in which your most treasured dreams have become true.
RALPH MARSTON
If you so choose, every mistake can lead to greater understanding and effectiveness. If you so choos...
RALPH MARSTON