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Extrapolating from the statistical growth of the legal profession, by the year 2035 every single person in the United States will be a lawyer, including newborn infants.
Michael Crichton
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Michael Crichton
Age: 66 †
Born: 1942
Born: October 23
Died: 2008
Died: November 4
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We are all assumed, these days, to reside at one extreme of the opinion spectrum, or another. We are pro-abortion or anti-abortion. We are free traders or protectionists. We are pro-private sector or pro-government. We are feminists or chauvinists. But in the real world, few of us hold these extreme views. There is instead a spectrum of opinion.
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The rules of grammar exist in large part to permit readers and writers to operate from a shared set of expectations.
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Harassment is about power---the undue exercise of power by a superior over a subordinate.
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You can answer your own question. You already know the answer, if you can just gain access to it.
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To give up responsibility for our lives is not healthy.
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In other centuries, human beings wanted to be saved, or improved, or freed, or educated. But in our century, they want to be entertained. The great fear is not of disease or death, but of boredom. A sense of time on our hands, a sense of nothing to do. A sense that we are not amused.
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They didn't understand what they were doing. I'm afraid that will be on the tombstone of the human race.
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You know what's wrong with scientific power? It's a form of inherited wealth. And you know what assholes congenitally rich people are.
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The greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus. There is no such thing as consensus science. If it's consensus, it isn't science. If it's science, it isn't consensus. Period.
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We think we know what we are doing. We have always thought so.
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They always say they didn't. I never heard of one who said, 'You know, I deserve this.' Never happens.
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In science consensus is irrelevant. What is relevant is reproducible results.
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