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• Careful economic research has shown public-sector workers receive a level of compensation, pension benefits, and retiree health coverage in excess of what comparable workers in the private sector enjoy. In some instances, the total premium can be 30 percent or higher.

  Bob Beauprez

  Excess, Benefits, Levels

  "3 ways to reform labor and save our country". www.foxnews.com. July 10, 2012.

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• According to Teenage Research Unlimited, 51 percent of 13-15 year olds say they will be faced with making a decision regarding alcohol in the next three months.

  Xavier Becerra

  Teenage, Years, Decision

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• I don't think it's too hippie to want to clean up the planet so you don't wind up dying of some kind of cancer when you're 45 years old. It enrages me that these big cancer-research organizations can't be bothered to man the front lines of environmental protest.

  Jello Biafra

  Cancer, Hippie, Men

  Interview with John Krewson, www.avclub.com. April 9, 1997.

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• We can continue to make significant strides in the scientific community by exploring new stem cell research methods that do not include destroying human embryos.

  John Boehner

  Cells, Community, Significant

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• Doctoral training is devoted almost entirely to learning to do research, even though most Ph.Ds who enter academic life spend far more time teaching than they do conducting experiments or writing books.

  Derek Bok

  Book, Teaching, Writing

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• Without a doubt, stem cell research will lead to the dramatic improvement in the human condition and will benefit millions of people.

  Eli Broad

  Cells, People, Doubt

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• I did a lot of my writing as though I was an academic, doing some piece of research as perfectly as possible.

  A. S. Byatt

  Writing, Pieces, Academic

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• Now the main areas of higher education that still enjoy considerable financial support from government are subjects like engineering and science and the research ringfence which is the basic minimum to protect Britain's scientific competitiveness.

  Vince Cable

  Government, Engineering, Support

  "Vince Cable takes on chancellor over plans for cuts in science" by Daniel Boffey, www.theguardian.com. November 17, 2012.

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• I don't do any research. It's all about gut. Editing - it's always about gut.

  Graydon Carter

  Editing, Guts

  "Graydon Carter: Literati? Glitterati? I'd rather have a quiet night in with the missus". Interview with Polly Vernon, www.theguardian.com. October 24, 2009.

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• I've just finished my 20th book this past year and I'm working on my 21st book about the Middle East right now that I'll finish this year. And I get up early in the morning and when I get tired of the computer and tired of doing research, I walk 20 steps out to my woodshop and I either build furniture or paint paintings. I'm an artist too.

  Jimmy Carter

  Morning, Book, Tired

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• Oil is a very valuable resource for life - electric heaters. We must have to transition ourselves to a post-oil era. And that's what we must discuss: searching and developing new sources of energy. And that requires scientific research. That requires investment. And the developed countries must be the ones to assume this responsibility first.

  Hugo Chavez

  Country, Responsibility, Oil

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• As a research tool, the internet is invaluable.

  Noam Chomsky

  Tools, Internet, Invaluable

  "Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media", www.imdb.com. 1992.

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• Westerners often laud their children as 'talented' or 'gifted', while Asian parents highlight the importance of hard work. And in fact, research performed by Stanford psychologist Carol Dweck has found that the way parents offer approval affects the way children perform, even the way they feel about themselves.

  Amy Chua

  Children, Hard Work, Parent

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• It turns out that advancing equal opportunity and economic empowerment is both morally right and good economics. Why? Because discrimination, poverty and ignorance restrict growth. We know that investments in education, infrastructure and scientific and technological research increase growth. They increase good jobs, and they create new wealth for all of us.

  William J. Clinton

  Jobs, Ignorance, Opportunity

  "Transcript of Bill Clinton's Speech to the Democratic National Convention". www.nytimes.com. September 5, 2012.

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• Scientific research and other studies have demonstrated that arts education can enhance American students' math and language skills and improve test scores which in turn increase chances of higher education and good jobs in the future.

  Thad Cochran

  Art, Jobs, Math

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• I did some research once on the way people in the past imagined the year 2000. They tended to picture the things they already had getting more sophisticated - flying cars, self-cleaning windows. And the folks in the early 1900s had a wildly optimistic estimate of the future of pneumatic tubes.

  Gail Collins

  Optimistic, Past, Flying Cars

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• An investigator starts research in a new field with faith, a foggy idea, and a few wild experiments. Eventually the interplay of negative and positive results guides the work. By the time the research is completed, he or she knows how it should have been started and conducted.

  Donald Cram

  Fog, Should Have, Ideas

  Donald J Cram, Jane M Cram (2007). “Container Molecules and Their Guests”, p.1, Royal Society of Chemistry

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• Astonishingly, in spite of decades of research, there is no agreed theory of cancer, no explanation for why, inside almost all healthy cells, there lurks a highly efficient cancer subroutine that can be activated by a variety of agents - radiation, chemicals, inflammation and infection.

  Paul Davies

  Cancer, Cells, Healthy

  "Cancer can teach us about our own evolution" by Paul Davies, www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2012.

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• I think looking back to my own childhood, the fact that so many of the stories I read allowed the possibility of frogs turning into princes, whether that has a sort of insidious affect on rationality, I'm not sure. Perhaps it's something for research.

  Richard Dawkins

  Thinking, Childhood, Stories

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• Heritage will remain, first and foremost, a research institute dedicated to impeccable research and data-driven policy analysis.

  Jim DeMint

  Data, Analysis, Heritage

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• The Heritage Foundation is the premier think tank, research organization. The premier idea group for the conservative movement.

  Jim DeMint

  Thinking, Organization, Ideas

  "The Situation Room" with Wolf Blitzer, www.realclearpolitics.com. December 6, 2012.

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• Great research universities must insist on independence from government and on the exercise of academic freedom.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Exercise, Government, Academic Freedom

  Alan Dershowitz's speech in Tel Aviv, www.haaretz.com. May 12, 2010.

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• If you didn't have patents, no one would bother to spend money on research and development. But with patents, if someone has a good idea and a competitor can't copy it, then that competitor will have to think of their own way of doing it. So then, instead of just one innovator, you have two or three people trying to do something in a new way.

  James Dyson

  Thinking, Research And Development, Ideas

  "How James Dyson Makes the Ordinary Extraordinary". Interview with Shoshana Berger, www.wired.com. November 19, 2012.

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• If history, philosophy and so on vanish from academic life, what they leave in their wake may be a technical training facility or corporate research institute. But it will not be a university in the classical sense of the term, and it would be deceptive to call it one.

  Terry Eagleton

  Philosophy, Academic Life, Training

  "The death of universities" by Terry Eagleton, www.theguardian.com. December 17, 2010.

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• I've never found kicks to the groin particularly funny, although recent work in the genre of the buddy movie suggests audience research must prove me wrong.

  Roger Ebert

  Found, Genre, Prove Me Wrong

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