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Oh, do not read history, for that I know must be false. Robert Walpole

History Must Know Read False Oh

Childhood depression tends to be more common in inner cities, being most frequently related to serious social deprivation, bullying, domestic violence, wartime experience and famine. It is, for example, a serious problem among children who are traumatised refugees. Robert Winston

Depression Bullying Experience Problem Example Related Cities More Tends For Example Most Frequently Domestic Childhood Refugees Common Famine Being Children Social Deprivation Who Wartime Serious Among Inner Violence

We must not confuse religion with God, or technology with science. Religion stands in relationship to God as technology does in relation to science. Both the conduct of religion and the pursuit of technology are capable of leading mankind into evil; but both can prompt great good. Robert Winston

I don't much like being a public figure, because so often how people appear is not how they really are, and I think one of the issues about our society is that we make judgments about people on the basis of very flimsy evidence. Robert Winston

Now we have technology where we can modify the genomics of individuals by gene transfer and genetic meddling, we may find that people will want to modify their children, enhance their intelligence, their strength and their beauty and all the other so-called desirable characteristics. Robert Winston

Strength Technology People Intelligence Will Beauty Meddling Other Characteristics Find Gene Individuals Genetic May Where Children So-Called Want Transfer Modify Enhance Now Desirable

Some people, both scientists and religious people, deal with uncertainty by being certain. That is dangerous in the fundamentalists and it is dangerous in the fundamentalist scientists. Robert Winston

People Dangerous Some People Religious Some Religious People Uncertainty Both Deal Scientists Being Certain Fundamentalist Fundamentalists

My concentration was really on getting to university and becoming a doctor. My parents let me know that school marks were important. Achievement was something which came by hard work. Roger Bannister

Our house was bombed, and the roof fell in. We were sitting under the stairs of the basement, and we were quite safe, but it brought home the realization. In two nights 400 people were killed in small town. Roger Bannister

I'm in competition with myself and I'm losing. Roger Waters

Myself Competition Losing

I've only ever written about one thing in my life, which is the fact that we, as human beings, have a responsibility to one another and that it's important that we empathize with others, that we organize society so that we all become happier and we all get the life we really want. Roger Waters

Life Responsibility My Life Important Become Society Others One Thing About Only Fact Written Empathize Another Get Human Want Human Beings Happier Which Really Organize Beings Ever Thing

It's better to burn brightly for half as long than to be a dim lingering light. Roland Gift

Better Light Long Half Dim Lingering Than Burn Brightly

The law of property determines who owns something, but the market determines how it will be used. Ronald Coase

Property Law Will Market Something Determines How Owns Used Who

I remember times of anxiety, ups and downs, and times of unexpected windfalls. But my parents loved what they did. And because their work was also their hobby, it taught me that work could be fulfilling. Rosamund Pike

Work Me Anxiety Remember Ups And Downs Parents Could Also Because Times Did Unexpected Taught Hobby Ups Loved Fulfilling Downs

It's difficult on a ship to get away from your job because that accommodation house, which is where seafarers live, is their workplace, it's where they live, it's where they relax, it's everything, and it's just hard to get away. And seafarers often refer to their job as being in prison with a salary. Rose George

There's a certain kind of scepticism that can't bear uncertainty. Rupert Sheldrake

Kind Uncertainty Bear Scepticism Certain

Science at its best is an open-minded method of inquiry, not a belief system. Rupert Sheldrake

Best Science Inquiry System Open-Minded Method Belief

What I mind in modern society very much is the awful lack of grammar. Ruth Rendell

Mind Society Very Modern Lack Grammar Modern Society Much Awful

Probation is a less-well-known branch of our justice system, compared with, say, police and prisons, but that doesn't make it any less important. Hundreds of thousands of offenders each year are rehabilitated back into society by probation, which is crucial for the public's safety. Sadiq Khan

Justice Police Safety Important Year Society Back Our Hundreds Hundreds Of Thousands Say System Thousands Crucial Make Prisons Offenders Branch Any Probation Which Public Less Each Compared Each Year

Letting people out of prison without professional staff to oversee their rehabilitation is irresponsible. Sadiq Khan

People Prison Out Without Oversee Staff Irresponsible Rehabilitation Professional Letting

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