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• There are no bona fide treatments available for embryonic stem cells. There is nothing in the laboratory, and there is certainly nothing in the clinics available to patients.

  Michael C. Burgess

  Cells, Patient, Treatment

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• Since the 1960s, there has been a tremendous expansion of the resources available to pay for health care.

  Phil Bredesen

  Expansion, Care, Pay

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• The military code of justice sets out exactly what type of charges are available for specific acts.

  Saxby Chambliss

  Military, Justice, Type

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• However, the models also predict unambiguously that the atmosphere is warming faster than the surface of the earth; but all the available observational data unambiguously shows the opposite!

  David Douglass

  Opposites, Data, Atmosphere

  Letter to the Wall Street Journal, www.desmogblog.com.

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• It is quite clear that compelling content, which is made available on economic terms that respect the intellectual rights of owners, can be a tremendous spur to the growth of broadband networks.

  John Doerr

  Rights, Intellectual, Growth

  "Tech leaders: Feds should push broadband" by Patrick Thibodeau, www.cnn.com. January 17, 2002.

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• People call me and ask me for advice all the time. On an elevator they tell me their problems. I think it's in part because I'm Italian so I'm emotionally available and I have a friendly persona.

  Joyce DeWitt

  Italian, Thinking, People

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• I worked in television; I'm the Failed Pilot Queen, I've done so many television shows, pilots, theater ... when you do it for so long, I'm telling you, you get to the point where it becomes varied because you take what's available for a number of reasons. It's just an occupational hazard.

  Viola Davis

  Queens, Numbers, Long

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• It's true in the beginning I started playing villains, and I think that's pretty clear, because if you don't conventionally look a certain way and you've got a certain kind of presence when you're young, then what's available to you is character roles, and the best character roles when you're young tend to be villains.

  Willem Dafoe

  Character, Thinking, Roles

  Interview with Jonathan Romney, www.theguardian.com. November 8, 1998.

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• The problem with the United Nations is that while democracy within nations is the best available form of government, democracy among nations can be a moral disaster - especially if some nations are not democracies.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Government, Democracy, Moral

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• I want to point out to adults that there is a world of good material available to you now in comic form - in this medium - and learn to give it your support because the more you support it, the better the material will be as it comes out.

  Will Eisner

  Giving, Support, Adults

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• If in a city we had six vacant lots available to the youngsters of a certain neighborhood for playing ball, it might be "development" to build houses on the first, and the second, and the third, and the fourth, and even the fifth, but when we build houses on the last one, we forget what houses are for.

  Aldo Leopold

  Nature, Cities, House

  Aldo Leopold, David Earl Brown, Neil B. Carmony (1995). “Aldo Leopold's Southwest”, p.159, UNM Press

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• The knowledge that refuge is available, when and if needed, makes the silent inferno of the desert more easily bearable. Mountains complement desert as desert complements city, as wilderness complements and completes civilization.

  Edward Abbey

  Nature, Civilization, Cities

  Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert Solitaire”, p.129, Simon and Schuster

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• Abstract systems depend on trust, yet they provide none of the moral rewards which can be obtained from personalised trust, or were often available in traditional settings from the moral frameworks within which everyday life was undertaken. Moreover, the wholesale penetration of abstract systems into daily life creates risks which the individual is not well placed to confront; high-consequence risks fall into this category. Greater interdependence, up to and including globally independent systems, means greater vulnerability when untoward events occur that affect those systems as a whole.

  Anthony Giddens

  Fall, Mean, Independent

  Anthony Giddens (2013). “Modernity and Self-Identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age”, p.140, John Wiley & Sons

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• We are offering to the American public a line of delicious Italian-American foods. They will be available through the Internet, shopping networks and national store distribution.

  Rocco DiSpirito

  Italian, Offering, Shopping

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• For so many years fashion was shrouded in mystery, this glamorous profession that people knew very little about, they thought it was so glamorous. It now has become so available, with the Internet, with shops like H&M and Target that do designer collaborations, so it's more available to everyone and that's created more interest.

  Nina Garcia

  Fashion, Years, People

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• I mean, when you get down to very low numbers of nuclear weapons, and you contemplate going to zero, how do you deal with the reality of that technology being available to almost any country that seeks to pursue it? And what conditions do you put in place?

  Robert M. Gates

  Country, Zero, Mean

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• One reason I encourage people to blog is that the act of doing it stretches your available vocabulary and hones a new voice.

  Seth Godin

  Voice, Vocabulary, People

  "Inside Seth Godin's Blogging Philosophy". Interview with Josh Bernoff, adage.com. July 13, 2009.

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• I believe that it is a whole lifetime of work on Shakespeare's part that enabled him to do what he did. But the question is how you can explain this whole lifetime in such a way to make it accessible and available to us, to me.

  Stephen Greenblatt

  Believe, Way, Lifetime

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• History has repeatedly shown that when a new method or material becomes available, new uses for it arise.

  Wilson Greatbatch

  Use, Arise, Method

  Wilson Greatbatch (2000). “The Making of the Pacemaker: Celebrating a Lifesaving Invention”

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• I've taken every writing class I've had available. I took classes in high school, and I took English and writing classes in community college, but I dropped out of college. I also attended a local writing workshop two years ago.

  Amanda Hocking

  Taken, Writing, School

  "Meet Mega Bestselling Indie Heroine Amanda Hocking". Interview with Tonya Plank, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 5, 2011.

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• With .NET once an API is published it's available to all programming languages at the same time.

  Miguel de Icaza

  Language, Programming, Programming Languages

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• If modernist naturalism were true, there would be no objective truth outside of science. In that case right and wrong would be a matter of cultural preference, or political power, and the power already available to modernists ideologies would be overwhelming.

  Phillip E. Johnson

  Political, Would Be, Objective Truth

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• To meet the shortage of supplies from America, due to lack of shipping, the representatives of the different supply departments were constantly in search of available material and supplies in Europe.

  Kelly Miller

  Europe, America, Different

  Kelly Miller (1919). “Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights ...: Why America Entered the Conflict ...& a Thrilling Account of the Important Part Taken by the Negro in the Tragic Defeat of Germany ...”

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• Literacy is part of everyday social practice - it mediates all aspects of everyday life. Literacy is always part of something else - we are always doing something with it. Its what we choose to do with it that is important. There are a range of contemporary literacies available to us - while print literacy was the first mass media, it is now one of the mass media.

  David Barton

  Reading, Media, Practice

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• As soon as you judge communication a little more rigorously, there is a possibility that the message will not be democratized. I have to say what I believe to be right. I have to spread out the statement among all the means of expression available to us at present.

  Alexander Kluge

  Believe, Communication, Mean

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