"The world has entered an era of the most profound and challenging change in human history."
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"You can't regulate every lab in the world."
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"We find ourselves in a bewildering world. We want to make sense of what we see around us and to ask: What is the nature of the universe? What is our place in it and where did it and we come from? Why is it the way it is?"
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"When I was young, Stephen Hawking wasn't the world's most famous physicist. The fame didn't arrive until the publication of "A Brief History of Time," by which time I was in my late teens. When I was a child, he was well known among physicists, but they are a fairly select, serious bunch, not much given to celebrity idolizing."
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"The fact of the matter is, we have the strongest banking system in the world."
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"I will strive to make this not the highest-spending country in the world, but instead the lowest taxing o-ne."
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"I don't know if for sure in absolute terms if Jim Flaherty is the best Finance Minster in the world, but I am sure that he is the best Finance Minster per inch in the world."
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"If you lined up all the cars in the world end to end, someone would try to pass them."
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"Sure we fit. We wouldn't be here if we didn't. But the world wasn't made for us and it will endure without us."
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"The world is too complex for subsumption under any general theory of change."
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"Perhaps randomness is not merely an adequate description for complex causes that we cannot specify. Perhaps the world really works this way, and many events are uncaused in any conventional sense of the word. Perhaps our gut feeling that it cannot be so reflects only our hopes and prejudices, our desperate striving to make sense of a complex and confusing world, and not the ways of nature."
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"The world is full of signals that we don't perceive."
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"There had never been a shortage of fools in the world"
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"And then the world exploded."
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"As infants, our first victory comes in grasping some bit of the world, usually our mother's fingers. Later we discover that the world, and the things of the world, are grasping us, and have been all along."
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"Time continued to pass - the oldest trick in the world, and maybe the only one that really is magic."
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"It was not fair, it was not fair, it was not fair. So cried his child's heart, and then his child's heart died a little. For that is also the way of the world."
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"I believe there is an unseen world all around us."
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"I've killed enough of the world's trees."
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"Wherever you write is supposed to be a little bit of a refuge, a place where you can get away from the world. The more closed in you are, the more you're forced back on your own imagination."
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