If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?

Remember that sign they hung up in an EPA office during the Reagan administration, No good deed goes unpunished? Under George Bush, no good science goes unpunished.

David Helvarg

But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?

H. P. Lovecraft

The biggest challenge is how to affect public attitudes and make people care.

Jim Fowler

We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the game.

Randy Pausch

The kind of ancestors we have had is not as important as the kind of descendants our ancestors have.

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Certainly the advent of technology and electronic commerce has had an immense impact on the real estate industry.

Michael Oxley

The whole kiss-and-tell thing is a negative approach that often happens in a World Cup. We will see negative stories about the players and it can affect their confidence and the overall performance of the national team on the pitch, let alone the bid to actually stage the competition.

Gary Lineker

Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world's poorest people.

Bono

A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal.

Proverb

When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.

Agnes Martin

That the state of knowledge in any country will exert a directive influence on the general system of instruction adopted in it, is a principle too obvious to require investigation.

Charles Babbage

Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.

Jesus Christ