#venti

We recognized in 1996 that, with progress in the field of genetics accelerating at a breathtaking pace, we need to ensure that advances in treatment and prevention of disease do not constitute a new basis for discrimination. ↗

— Olympia Snowe

#basis #breathtaking #constitute #discrimination #disease

What I learned was the quality of continual reinvention. ↗

— Merrie Spaeth

#i #learned #quality #reinvention

I would say that, in the future, the book will be reserved for things that function best as a book. So, if I need a textbook that's going to be out of date because of new technological inventions, you're better off having it where you can download the supplements or the update. ↗

— Art Spiegelman

#best #better #better off #book #date

It wasn't until the first season ended that I went to my first Star Trek convention. It was in Denver. There were two and a half thousand people there. ↗

— Patrick Stewart

#denver #ended #first #half #i

Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom. ↗

— Joseph Stiglitz

#conventional wisdom #counter #economists #like #often

There were a couple of things in the intervention that made me know I needed help. One was a letter from my daughter saying that she was ashamed she had the same last name as I did, which will shock you a little bit. ↗

— Pat Summerall

#bit #couple #daughter #did #had

First of all, there's no mention of political parties in the Constitution, so you begin American history with not only no political conventions but also no parties. ↗

— Michael Beschloss

#american #american history #begin #constitution #conventions

I was less successful in my attempts to effect preventive vaccination against typhus by using the virus and in trying to produce large quantities of serum using large animals. ↗

— Charles Jules Henry Nicole

#attempts #effect #i #large #less

The problem for Rome, then, is how and when the intervention should be done with a sense of the possibility of going too far in limiting the freedom of theologians. This is not an easy time - neither for Rome nor for the theologians. ↗

— Godfried Danneels

#easy #far #freedom #going #how

Television has some lovely aspects to it - and some ghastly aspects - but the theater itself was a wonderful invention. ↗

— Patrick Macnee

#ghastly #invention #itself #lovely #some