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Others think it the responsibility of scientists to coerce the rest of society because they have the power that derives from special knowledge.

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John Charles Polanyi
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Category: Knowledge

Authors

A. A. MilneA. B. YehoshuaA. Bartlett GiamattiA. C. BensonA. E. HousmanA. E. van VogtA. J. JacobsA. J. LangerA. J. LieblingA. J. McLean

Topics Index

1 Age

  • 1. Low levels of vitamin D in the population as a whole suggest that most people need to take a vitamin D supplement. This may be especially true for seniors as the ability to synthesize vitamin D in the skin declines with age.
  • 2. Every age has its own poetry in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation a race a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.
  • 3. America doesn't reward people of my age either in day-to-day life or for their performances.

2 Amazing

  • 1. I just did a part in 'Sin City 2.' I got to do a scene with Ray Liotta. Amazing man extraordinary gentleman who was just so kind to me… I'm so excited about that I think it's gonna be very cool.
  • 2. I had a great time with John Duigan he's pretty amazing.
  • 3. I never travel without my Stetson but the more I wear it the more I realise that no one wears hats any more. When I was a kid everybody wore hats especially in Texas but I get off the plane in Dallas now and I'm the only guy with a hat. It's amazing.

3 Anger

  • 1. The anger in the Brigade against those who fought the Republic in the rear was sharpened by reports of weapons even tanks being kept from the front and hidden for treacherous purposes.
  • 2. Anger if not restrained is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
  • 3. Anger begins with folly and ends with repentance.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. See the 'On the Road' that came out in 1957 was censored. A lot of the honesty of it the bitter honesty is in the original scroll version that came out in 2007 on the 50-year anniversary. Back then there was so much post-Second World War fear that was imposed on everybody – 'You must live life this way' – and these guys were bored.
  • 2. It is a matter of public shame that while we have now commemorated our hundredth anniversary not one in every ten children attending Public schools throughout the colonies is acquainted with a single historical fact about Australia.
  • 3. I think you have to be willing to take a bullet for somebody if you're going to stand up there take your vows and be married to them for the rest of your life.

5 Architecture

  • 1. So what we have tried to do in our later buildings is to try to be completely consistent as a painter is consistent or as a sculptor is consistent. Architecture also must be very consistent.
  • 2. At a certain point I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture.
  • 3. Every building is a prototype. No two are alike.
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