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Related U.S. multinationals are still spending most of their R&D dollars here in the U.S. -- about 90 percen... GARY HUFBAUER Trial and error are usually the prime means of solving life’s problems. Yet many people are afraid... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Do not make the mistake of assuming that because we’re women we’ll eventually want children. We ... SYLVIA D. LUCAS Of course, relative citation frequencies are no measure of relative importance. Who has not aspired ... ABRAHAM PAIS It doesn't necessarily mean that this time is going to be the same, it means that probably this grou... LORENZO VIDINO If I could turn you on, if I could drive you out of your wretched mind, if I could tell you I would ... R.D. LAING Food Allergies Are Not Due to Food, Rather Are Due to the Constant Contamination of That Food That Y... THEHEALTHFOODGURU this is the 21st century and we need to redefine r/evolution. this planet needs a people’s r/evolu... ASSATA SHAKUR Festus just detected a large group of eagles behind us—long-range radar, still not in sight.” RICK RIORDAN Assuming that all ‘unschooled’ people to lack education is akin to assuming that a salary is the... MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA No mistake is so commonly made by clever people as that of assuming a cause to be bad because the ar... THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY This is my fundamental teaching: that there is no division between this and that. That is contained ... OSHO I used to make the mistake of assuming people were inherently smart. JACK JOHNSON Life is weird and wonderful like that, is it not. SONYA.E.WILLIAMS Never make the mistake of assuming the critters will beat a path to your door. JOHN P. MASCOTTE In essence, we recognize the importance of surveillance of all members, particularly of their domest... CARLOS SAITO The road to salvation is filled with many false dark turn-offs, if you take those roads they will le... GARY F EVANS... Since (Koizumi) defined party membership exclusively in terms of members' views on postal privatizat... PETER MORGAN The fundamental reason for this mission is that we are collecting what we believe are the best prese... DON BROWNLEE We are finding that mergers do not appear to play the dominant role in star formation, because we se... DAVID KOO The enmity of such a party towards Socialism does not mean that the members are only prejudiced agai... KARL RADEK I wish I was home", She said miserably. She tried so hard to be brave, to be fierce as a... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The worst mistake you can make is underrating your enemy. Assuming that they're evil - I think i... ALAN DERSHOWITZ I always tried to make clear that basketball is not the ultimate. It is of small importance in compa... JOHN WOODEN It is not a mistake that the first 4 letters of cashew is spelt cash, it means, there is cash in cas... SOTONYE ANGA Suicide is a fundamental human right. This does not mean that it is morally desirable. It only means... THOMAS S. SZASZ Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths without a recognition of which there c... CLIVE BELL 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give... JAMES C. DOBSON This move doesn't mean fundamental change of RMB exchange rate formation mechanism. HU XIAOLIAN The only deadly disease I have seen that is causing great harm and massacre latently yet the world h... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Because the results are expressed in numbers, it is easy to make the mistake of thinking that the in... WALTER LIPPMANN If you are upset about something wrong you’ve done, do something to make things right. Of course i... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA To mistake Midland for the volk heartland is the West Texas equivalent of assuming that Greenwich, C... MOLLY IVINS We are just on the edge of implementing it, but of course all of it has to be implemented, and that ... DAVID TRIMBLE What are the five products you want to focus on? Get rid of the rest, because they’re dragging you... WALTER ISAACSON On the other hand, I think that the family, the traditional family, has a fundamental social role, b... ROCCO BUTTIGLIONE Of course, I think that people are just waiting for that time when I make a mistake and they're ... JUSTIN BIEBER The links have to be between universities, R&D institutes, and industry. If these linkages are i... JAMSHYD GODREJ Technology is incredibly powerful. And in many ways, the sky is the limit in terms of what you can a... RAMEZ NAAM Nokia is delighted to establish an R&D center in this part of China. This marks another important st... DAVID HO We are still studying the contents, but are confident that it will create renewed interest in R&D. ANDRE BOTHA Nokia is delighted to establish a new R&D centre in this part of China. ... This marks a... DAVID HO This move doesn't mean fundamental change in the RMB exchange rate formation mechanism. HU XIAOLIAN The information we really need to gather initially is to find out what researchers need and desire i... HOWARD NEKIMKEN This application is clearly of sufficient importance to require that it be made by the members of th... BARNEY FRANK A lot of R&D happens on job sites. GEOFF SMITH We don't anticipate that Governor Taft is necessarily going to respond to this campaign without the ... DAVID ZANOTTI It means that graduates understand the importance of giving back, and that's on many levels. BRIAN WOODS I need some kind of emotional stake in it to write my lyrics, assuming that place. It might just be ... JOHN MAYER If you don't invest in R&D, you're going to get left behind, because all the other companies are doi... BENJAMIN ANDREW I realized that day that blessings come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes. CRAIG GROESCHEL A professional society that has strong ties to both the industrial and research communities would be... HOWARD NEKIMKEN It is sometimes a mistake to climb; it is always a mistake never even to make the attempt. If you do... NEIL GAIMAN The one mistake you must never make is to agree to make a film or sign on to film that you don't... PAUL GREENGRASS The light sprang up again, and there on the brink of the chasm, at the very Crack of Doom, stood Fro... J.R.R. TOLKIEN This is a time of importance and a learning opportunity for parents. The purpose is to make parents ... JOSEPH DRELISZAK The second sweetest set of three words in English is "I don't know," and it is to R D Laing's credit... CAROL TAVRIS The light was so dim that Jaime could scarcely see her, though they stood a scant few feet apart. 'I... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The great thing about reading is that it broadens your life GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Never in her life – she could swear it from the bottom of her soul – had she ever intended to do... THOMAS HARDY All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w... JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It... COLSON WHITEHEAD Kehidupan perempuan itu sembilan bagian kacau dan satu bagian ajaib, kau akan segera mengetahuinya..... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Jaime smiled knowingly. Men will read all sorts of things into a knowing smile if you let them. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN It is no bad thing celebrating a simple life. J.R.R. TOLKIEN Though he walked and breathed, and about him living leaves and flowers were stirred by the same cool... J.R.R. TOLKIEN No one has been able to make it work over an extended period. One of the benefits of the pledge peri... LEA SLOAN This is not the wisdom of the crowd, but the wisdom of someone in the crowd. It’s not that the net... STEVEN JOHNSON However, for ISPs especially, the spam problem is not fully solved by any means. They still spend a ... JONATHAN PENN The fundamental mistake I had always made - and that she had, in fairness, always led me to make - w... JOHN GREEN That a man can take pleasure in marching in formation to the strains of a band is enough to make me ... ALBERT EINSTEIN We will be closing 73 Toys ?R' Us stores in the United States only. This does not affect our interna... KATHLEEN WAUGH Our intentions may be very good, but, because the intelligence is limited, the action may turn out t... E. STANLEY JONES The frustrated follow a leader less because of their faith that he is leading them to a promised lan... ERIC HOFFER Make no mistake [board members] knew intelligent design was a form of creationism when they added it... ERIC ROTHSCHILD It is of the utmost importance that our service members are adequately compensated for their duties,... CARL LEVIN Millions of people acknowledge today that they do not know the meaning of life. JAMES C. DOBSON Quoting from Phillip Moffitt Will Yoga and Meditation Really Change My Life? The most prof... STEPHEN COPE I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix. DEYTH BANGER You mistake patience for forbearance. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN a simple brain freeze, the sort that all human beings are subject to. On the other hand, it is at le... CASS SUNSTEIN This is no less true of steel and concrete [than of wood, brick and stone]. We must remember that ev... LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE The story the Leavers have been enacting for the past three million years isn’t a story of conques... DANIEL QUINN People without imagination are beginning to tire of the importance attached to comfort, to culture, ... RAOUL VANEIGEM It would be a mistake to link anything that Israel does to a certain circumstance. And it is a mista... BASHAR AL-ASSAD Do not let that game destroy your life. Get rid of it, get outside.. TREVON CLARK The Fed certainly recognizes the importance that the markets are placing on the housing market and c... TONY CRESCENZI If you make a mistake and do not correct it, this is called a mistake. CONFUCIUS The main focus this week is what the beige book is saying about the consumer sector in the U.S. beca... PAUL DONOVAN I conclude that it is a fundamental mistake to think that salvation, justice, or virtue come through... JEANE KIRKPATRICK To be an anarchist only means that you believe that aggression is not justified, and that states nec... N STEPHAN KINSELLA The process of star formation is obscured because it takes place in these dense molecular clouds, so... TIMOTHY ROBISHAW Do not make the mistake of believing that he does not love you because he plays at not caring. CASSANDRA CLARE You take after Bilbo,' said Gandalf. 'There is more about you than meets the eye, as I said of him l... 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TOLKIEN If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. J. R. R. TOLKIEN An awful lot of fantasy, and even some great fantasy, falls into the mistake of assuming that a good... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN As Faulkner says, all of us have the capacity in us for great good and for great evil, for love but ... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Over the years, more than one reviewer has described my fantasy series, 'A Song of Ice and Fire&... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I had an encyclopedia with a list of flags in the back, so I would look at all these flags of China ... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Middle English is an exciting field - almost uncharted, I begin to think, because as soon as one tur... J. R. R. TOLKIEN It is plain indeed that in spite of later estrangement Hobbits are relatives of ours: far nearer to ... J. R. R. TOLKIEN He had a feeling that the answer was quite different and that he ought to know it, but he could no... J. R. R. 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MARTIN I have files, I have computer files and, you know, files on paper. But most of it is really in my he... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN The odd thing about being a writer is you do tend to lose yourself in your books. Sometimes it seems... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN In my 10 years that I spent out in TV and film, I had my shares of frustrations and annoyances and d... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I try to make the readers feel they've lived the events of the book. Just as you grieve if a fri... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN All fiction has to have a certain amount of truth in it to be powerful. GEORGE R. R. MARTIN It may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend's folly. J. R. R. TOLKIEN I like grey characters; fantasy for too long has been focused on very stereotypical heroes and villa... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN There are some examples of medieval kings who were terrible human beings but were nevertheless good ... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN It's really irritating when you open a book, and 10 pages into it you know that the hero you met... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I do get invitations all of the time to play actual fantasy football, by the way, but I get the feel... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I'm a huge fan of Tolkien. I read those books when I was in junior high school and high school, ... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Many children make up, or begin to make up, imaginary languages. I have been at it since I could wri... J. R. R. TOLKIEN In October 1920 I went to Leeds as Reader in English Language, with a free commission to develop the... J. R. R. TOLKIEN I have an instinctual distrust of conventional happy endings. GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I had this desire to see the world. I couldn't see any of it, but I saw it in my imagination, an... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Yes - 90% of fantasy is crap. And so is 90% of science fiction and 90% of mystery fiction and 90% of... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I have always regarded historical fiction and fantasy as sisters under the skin, two genres separate... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Hobbits are an unobtrusive but very ancient people, more numerous formerly than they are today; for ... J. R. R. TOLKIEN I prefer to work with grey characters rather than black and white. GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I've always preferred writing about grey characters and human characters. Whether they are giant... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Start with short stories. After all, if you were taking up rock climbing, you wouldn't start wit... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Many writers will get a contract by selling chapters and outlines or something like that. I wrote th... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Don't write outlines; I hate outlines. GEORGE R. R. MARTIN When I'm writing from a character's viewpoint, in essence I become that character; I share t... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN The prejudice is still there, but it's breaking down. You have writers like Michael Chabon and T... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN It's like these ideas, these characters, kind of bubble up inside me, and one day they're no... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN One of the things I love, and I'm a voracious reader as well as a writer, is books that surprise... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN With a book I am the writer and I am also the director and I'm all of the actors and I'm the... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN A friend of mine tells that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it. J. R. R. TOLKIEN I never liked Gandalf the White as much as Gandalf the Grey, and I never liked him coming back. I th... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN The success that the Tolkien books had redefined modern fantasy. GEORGE R. R. MARTIN If you go all the way back, I've always written science-fiction, I've always written fantasy... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I have many books that I want to write; I'd like to think that I'll be around for another 20... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN If I was a soldier going to war, I'd be pretty scared the night before a battle. It's a scar... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Of course it's not enough to be a good man to be an effective ruler and it never has been. GEORGE R. R. MARTIN It is very easy to say I MISS YOU, but very difficult to express how much I MISS YOU……….. SARVESH MURTHI .D .D I only feel sorry for weak people. And mostly what I've come to find is that the weak people are... R. KELLY I have Marvin Gaye's driver's license. His wife sent it to me, because she really loved my &... R. KELLY I started to wear the sunglasses all the time at school, hiding behind them... I'd walk down the... R. KELLY I'm very responsible. And with ability you have to have responsibility. I'm not perfect. But... R. KELLY When you hear romantic music, it makes you want to take your girl out to dinner or buy her something... R. KELLY Not only did I get an A in music but I got an A in ladies. R. KELLY If I'm going to be a leader then I have to go places that other people are afraid to go to. That... R. KELLY You know, I'm no different from a fireman. You got to run into a fire no matter how big the blaz... R. KELLY I still feel like I'm alone at times - even if I'm in the midst of a million people. Because... R. KELLY In life, you have people that love to party. That's me. People that love God. That's me. Peo... R. KELLY I learnt a whole lot from my mother. About music, relationships, being a good person, loving people,... R. KELLY I'm no angel, but I'm no monster, either. R. KELLY I try to write life and not songs. People live life, and when you write life, you're going to me... R. KELLY Love has never failed. It has won every battle. And today and forever more it will go on undefeated.... R. KELLY