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• Despite its potential, the federal government has restricted funding for creating new cell lines - putting the burden of any future research squarely on the shoulders of the private sector. Government's most basic responsibility, however, is the health and welfare of its people, so it has a duty to encourage appropriate scientific investigations that could possibly save the lives of millions.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Responsibility, Government, Cells

  "Future of the Internet: Net Neutrality, the Semantic Web, plus some comments on science by the mayor of New York". "Science Talk" with Steve Mirsky, www.scientificamerican.com. May 31, 2006.

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• Anger is an appropriate reaction to racist attitudes, as is fury when the actions arising from those attitudes do not change.

  Audre Lorde

  Attitude, Anger, Racism

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.129, Crossing Press

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• It's not appropriate to joke about the Ku Klux Klan.

  Mitt Romney

  Ku Klux Klan, Jokes

  "Mass. Democrats Angered by 'KKK' Joke". www.washingtonpost.com. November 11, 2005.

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• Individuals possessing moderate-sized brains easily find their proper sphere, and enjoy in it scope for all their energy. In ordinary circumstances they distinguish themselves, but they sink when difficulties accumulate around them. Persons with large brains, on the other hand, do not readily attain their appropriate place; common occurrences do not rouse or call them forth.

  George Combe

  Hands, Brain, Energy

  George Combe (1830). “A System of Phrenology”, p.106

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• Moving from unbelief, to Evangelicalism, and finally home to the Catholic Church, Professor Holly Ordway reveals how a gifted mind, longing for transcendence, can only appropriate it if it is wholly given by the reach and power of God's grace.

  Francis J. Beckwith

  Moving, Home, Catholic

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• [To the House of Representatives before casting the only vote against allowing George W. Bush to use 'all necesary and appropriate force' in response to 9/11:] We must be careful not to embark on an open-ended war with neither an exit strategy nor a focused target. We cannot repeat past mistakes.

  Barbara Lee

  Courage, War, Mistake

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• Real morality is based on a single criterion: right action, appropriate action, in the present moment and present situation.

  Brad Warner

  Real, Morality, Action

  Brad Warner (2015). “Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies and the Truth About Reality”, p.149, Simon and Schuster

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• Love has seven names, / Which, as you know, are appropriate to her; / Chain, light, live coal, and fire - / ... dew, living spring, and hell.

  Hadewijch

  Spring, Fire, Light

  Hadewijch, Columba Hart (1980). “Hadewijch (CWS)”, p.352, Paulist Press

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• I don't think we're actually using the constitutional tools that we have in an appropriate fashion.

  Rand Paul

  Fashion, Thinking, Tools

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Being Americans, we prosecute wars to win them, not to have reasonable response, not to have appropriate levels of retaliation. Our theory is you start bombing our cities; we're going to defeat you and make it impossible.

  Newt Gingrich

  War, Winning, Cities

  "Newt Gingrich: This is World War III". "Hannity & Colmes", www.foxnews.com. July 18, 2006.

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• I'll write for a while and then I'll find an appropriate song and in a weird way the music will keep me in the mood. I find music to define the mood of the movie, the rhythm the movie is going to play in.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Song, Writing, Play

  "Method Writing: Interview with Quentin Tarantino". Interview with Erik Bauer, creativescreenwriting.com. August 11, 2013.

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• It's my job to find the cornel of truth and then exaggerate, exaggerate, exaggerate until it's of an appropriate scale.

  Claire Danes

  Jobs, Scales

  "Steve Martin and Claire Danes". Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. October 19, 2005.

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• The system should always keep users informed about what is going on, through appropriate feedback within reasonable time.

  Jakob Nielsen

  Feedback, Should, Reasonable

  Jakob Nielsen (1994). “Usability Engineering”, p.20, Morgan Kaufmann

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• Minimize the user's memory load by making objects, actions, and options visible. The user should not have to remember information from one part of the dialogue to another. Instructions for use of the system should be visible or easily retrievable whenever appropriate.

  Jakob Nielsen

  Memories, Use, Information

  "10 Usability Heuristics for User Interface Design". Article by Jakob Nielsen, www.nngroup.com. January 1, 1995.

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• We may say, in a broad way, that Greek philosophy down to Aristotle expresses the mentality appropriate to the City State; that Stoicism is appropriate to a cosmopolitan despotism; that stochastic philosophy is an intellectual expression of the Church as an organization; that philosophy since Descartes, or at any rate since Locke, tends to embody the prejudices of the commercial middle class; and that Marxism and Fascism are the philosophies appropriate to the modern industrial state.

  Bertrand Russell

  Philosophy, Expression, Class

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• In the context of Quaker worship, it is perfectly appropriate for any person in the congregation to speak a timely word from the Lord.

  Richard J. Foster

  Worship, Speak, Lord

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• I don't really have a lot of appropriate feelings for people on an individual basis, but I've always wanted to make people happy.

  Dan Harmon

  People, Feelings, Individual

  "How Dan Harmon Drives Himself Crazy Making Community" by Brian Raftery, www.wired.com. September 22, 2011.

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• If zeal had been appropriate for putting humanity right, why did God the Word clothe himself in the body, using gentleness and humility in order to bring the world back to his Father?

  Isaac of Nineveh

  Father, Humility, Order

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• This is a collection of dexterous, loving, beautifully optimistic work that left me breathless and delighted.... Hannu Rajaniemi's magnificent science fiction - as is paradoxically appropriate - is pure magic.

  Amal El-Mohtar

  Optimistic, Magic, Fiction

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• Christian morality (so called) has all the characters of a reaction.... In its horror of sensuality, it made an idol of asceticism, which has been gradually compromised away into one of legality. It holds out the hope of heaven and the threat of hell, as the appointed and appropriate motives to a virtuous life - in this falling far below the best of the ancients, and doing what lies in it to give to human morality an essentially selfish character.... It is essentially a doctrine of passive obedience; it inculcates submission to all authorities found established.

  John Stuart Mill

  Christian, Lying, Selfish

  John Stuart Mill (1950). “Utilitarianism, liberty, and representative government”

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• However we select from nature a complex [of phenomena] using the criterion of simplicity, in no case will its theoretical treatment turn out to be forever appropriate (sufficient).... I do not doubt that the day will come when [general relativity], too, will have to yield to another one, for reasons which at present we do not yet surmise. I believe that this process of deepening theory has no limits.

  Albert Einstein

  Believe, Yield, Simplicity

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• I know from having had a child, and from having been a child myself, that children will copy you. So, the best way to get them to read, is to read. The best way to get them to do anything is to do it yourself, and they will absolutely copy you. That way, you don't have to worry about what's supposedly age appropriate, a child will pick something up when the child is ready.

  Alice Walker

  Children, Worry, Age

  "Alice in Walkerland!". Interview with Kam Williams, www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com.

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• So the fact that the first movie about Steve Jobs was made by a guy who was completely entrepreneurial and outside the film industry, I think is very appropriate.

  Joshua Michael Stern

  Jobs, Thinking, Guy

  Source: collider.com

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• If you paint a building shocking pink, that has no scale, it is just a huge mistake, but it's not in the scale of the city to have things like that. You know. So, not only because it's not appropriate, not only because it's offensive to the environment, I mean but among them also because that quantity of that color in the urban scale, is out of scale.

  Massimo Vignelli

  Mistake, Mean, Color

  Source: bigthink.com

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• To be sure, we have inherited abilities, but our development we owe to thousands of influences coming from the world around us from which we appropriate what we can and what is suitable to us.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  World, Development, Environment

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