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These core principles - helping patients, preventing medical errors, promoting best practices and improving quality - are the reasons that health IT is featured in both the 2012 Republican platform and 2012 Democratic platform.

Sheldon Whitehouse

Raised in a completely nonreligious family, never attended any church and was a thoroughgoing atheist all his life.

Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography

It is obvious that an imagined world, however different it may be from the real one, must have something - a form - in common with it.

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

Philosophy should make clear and delimit sharply the thoughts which otherwise are, as it were, opaque and blurred.

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

The denunciation of injustice implies the rejection of the use of Christianity to legitimize the established order.

A Theology of Liberation

Roughly speaking: to say of two things that they are identical is nonsense, and to say of one thing that it is identical with itself is to say nothing.

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.

Marie Curie

To have a huge, friendly whale willingly approach your boat and look you straight in the eye is without doubt one of the most extraordinary experiences on the planet.

Mark Carwardine

Some had the custom of receiving the Eucharist daily, some twice a week, some on the Lord's day, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday, some only on the Lord's Day.

Martin Chemnitz

It is the union of independence and dependence of these branches - legislative, executive and judicial - and of the governmental functions possessed by each of them, that constitutes the marvellous genius of this unrivalled document.

J. Reuben Clark

One in four sub-Saharan Africans is Nigerian, and it has 140 million dynamic people - chaotic people - but very interesting people.

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

If we save people from HIV/AIDS, if we save them from malaria, it means they can form the base of production for our economy.

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

I can take hardship. I can sleep on the cold floor anytime. I can also sleep on a feather bed.

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

I felt Nigeria didn't have to succumb to the image of being a corrupt country; we didn't have to let the economy stagnate.

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

I'm told I'm like my father, and he was the most wonderful man. But I think he was gentler than me.

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

No one can fight corruption for Nigerians except Nigerians. Everyone has to be committed from the top to the bottom to fight it.

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

Some day we'll move into space and start ensuring the survival of our species beyond Earth, whether it happens in a hundred years or a thousand.

Neil Turok

Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Every year if not every day, we have to wager our salvation on some prophecy based upon the imperfect knowledge.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

We always see the point of an iceberg. So I've always accepted the idea that people - they don't necessarily know everything I am.

Olivier Theyskens