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Young people ask me if this country is serious about science. They aren't thinking about the passport that they will hold, but the country that they must rely on for support and encouragement.
John Polanyi
Me
Science
People
Will
Country
Encouragement
Young
Thinking
Must
About
Rely
Support
Passport
Hold
Young People
Ask
Serious
The applause is a celebration not only of the actors but also of the audience. It constitutes a shared moment of delight.
John Polanyi
Only
Delight
Shared
Also
Audience
Celebration
Moment
Actor
Applause
Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.
John Polanyi
Knowledge
Dignity
Better
Embracing
Human
Human Dignity
Served
Though we explore in a culturally-conditioned way, the reality we sketch is universal.
John Polanyi
Reality
Way
Though
Sketch
Explore
Universal
It is this, at its most basic, that makes science a humane pursuit; it acknowledges the commonality of people's experience.
John Polanyi
Science
Experience
People
Humane
Pursuit
Most
Makes
Acknowledge
Commonality
Basic
Our assessment of socio-economic worth is largely a sham. We scientists should not lend ourselves to it - though we routinely do. We should, instead, insist on applying the criterion of quality.
John Polanyi
Quality
Worth
Insist
Our
Though
Criterion
Ourselves
Sham
Instead
Scientists
Lend
Should
Largely
Assessment
Socio-Economic
Applying
Others think it the responsibility of scientists to coerce the rest of society, because they have the power that derives from special knowledge.
John Polanyi
Knowledge
Responsibility
Rest
Power
Think
Society
Others
Because
Scientists
Derives
Special
Coerce
Under this scientific and moral pressure, the Canadian government conceded publicly that the use of these weapons in Vietnam was, in their view, a contravention of the Geneva Protocol.
John Polanyi
Government
Pressure
Moral
Weapons
Conceded
Geneva
Protocol
Scientific
Canadian
Vietnam
View
Use
Publicly
Today, Academies of Science use their influence around the world in support of human rights.
John Polanyi
Today
Rights
Science
World
Human Rights
Support
Academy
Around
Human
Influence
Use
What makes the Universal Declaration an epochal document is first of all its global impetus and secondly the breadth of its claims, a commitment to a new social contract, binding on all the Governments of the world.
John Polanyi
Commitment
World
First
Secondly
Claims
Impetus
New
Global
Document
First Of All
Makes
Contract
Governments
Breadth
Social
Declaration
Social Contract
Binding
Universal
In nation after nation, democracy has taken the place of autocracy.
John Polanyi
Democracy
Nation
Taken
Autocracy
After
Place
A new sense of shared international responsibility is unmistakable in the voices of the United Nations and its agencies, and in the civil society of thousands of supra-national NGOs.
John Polanyi
Responsibility
Sense
United Nations
Society
Unmistakable
Thousands
Civil
Civil Society
Voices
Shared
New
Nations
Agencies
International
United
The time has come to underscore the fact that our and others' rights are contingent on our willingness to assert and defend them.
John Polanyi
Time
Rights
Others
Our
Willingness
Fact
Come
Underscore
Contingent
Them
Assert
Defend
Science never gives up searching for truth, since it never claims to have achieved it. It is civilizing because it puts truth ahead of all else, including personal interests.
John Polanyi
Truth
Science
Else
Claims
Gives
Never
Puts
Since
Because
Up
Personal
Achieved
Interests
Including
Searching
I have a few customers who have two or three hundred bags. When you see a lady carrying a little dog bag or a little cat bag or an egg, it makes you happy.
Judith Leiber
You
Happy
Dog
Three
Few
Hundred
Carrying
See
Cat
Bag
Bags
Makes
Egg
Lady
Little
Customers
Who
Two
I always had a good dexterity. The story in my family goes that at the age of 3 I could thread needles faster than anybody.
Judith Leiber
Good
Family
Age
Faster
Thread
Could
Had
Always
Than
Goes
Anybody
Story
Needles
If I make a new bag I love, I don't keep it.
Judith Leiber
Love
Bag
New
Make
Keep
I make money using my brains and lose money listening to my heart. But in the long run my books balance pretty well.
Kate Seredy
Balance
Heart
Money
Listening
Long
Lose
Books
Run
Pretty
Long Run
Well
Make
Brains
Using
For yesterday and for all tomorrows, we dance the best we know.
Kate Seredy
Best
Dance
Yesterday
Know
Tomorrows
Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.
Lajos Kossuth
War
Alone
Freedom
Word
Hungary
Independence
Defence
State
Legitimate
Regain
Which
Dynasty
Against
Ever
In exile, I have tried to profit by the past and prepare for the future.
Lajos Kossuth
Future
Past
Profit
Tried
Exile
Prepare
The time draws near, when a radical change must take place for the whole world in the management of diplomacy.
Lajos Kossuth
Time
Change
Management
World
Diplomacy
Radical
Draws
Must
Take
Place
Radical Change
Whole
Near
In my opinion, the form of Government may be different in different countries, according to their circumstances, their wishes, their wants. England loves her Queen, and has full motive to do so.
Lajos Kossuth
Government
Queen
Circumstances
Be Different
Countries
Wishes
Opinion
Motive
According
May
Different
In My Opinion
Form
Wants
Different Countries
Loves
Full
England
Her
Yet my humble capacity has not preserved me from calumnies.
Lajos Kossuth
Me
Humble
Preserved
Capacity
Upon this the Hungarian ministers resigned, but the names submitted by the president of the council, at the demand of the king, were not approved of for successors.
Lajos Kossuth
King
President
Approved
Hungarian
Ministers
Council
Demand
Names
Were
Submitted
Resigned
I have to thank the People, the Congress, and the Government of the United States for my liberation.
Lajos Kossuth
Government
People
Congress
States
Liberation
Thank
United
United States
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