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Lack of consistency is a weakness shared by all nations. Tariq Ramadan

Consistency All Nations Weakness Shared Lack Nations

The young people who join extremist groups are clearly suffering from massive deficiencies in religious knowledge and are often politically gullible (when they are not attempting to salve pangs of conscience by cutting themselves off from a life of delinquency). Tariq Ramadan

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South Africa is labouring to find its revolutionary path; the colours of the Rainbow Nation have difficulty blending together; the wealthy elites (white, black or Indian) profit from de facto segregation. Tariq Ramadan

The 21st century - and the atheists - needs the presence of religion, just as religion must deal with the real challenges and the thinkers of the day in order to sharpen the conscience and the intelligence of those who study the timeless sacred texts in a spirit of responding to the questions of their time. Tariq Ramadan

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Tunisia's responsibility, and especially that of its political and intellectual elites, is enormous. All the protagonists of the nation's social, cultural, economic and political life must work to overcome useless and counterproductive polarisation, and to find solutions to domestic, regional and international problems. Tariq Ramadan

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The great majority of Americans do not know much about Islam but nonetheless fear it as violent, expansionist and alien to their society. The problem to overcome is not hatred, but ignorance. Tariq Ramadan

Great Ignorance Problem Fear Overcome Alien Hatred Islam Society Great Majority About Know Majority Nonetheless American Much Violent

The challenge for Muslims in America is to respect the fears of ordinary people while resisting the exploitation of those fears by political parties, lobbies and sectors of the media. To meet this challenge, Muslims must reassess their own involvement, behavior and contributions in American society. Tariq Ramadan

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The goal of physiological research is functional nature. Walter Rudolf Hess

Nature Research Physiological Goal Functional

In fact, quantitative findings of any material and energy changes preserve their full context only through their being seen and understood as parts of a natural order. Walter Rudolf Hess

Natural Seen Energy Changes Only Fact Through Parts Quantitative Material Context Understood Any Being In Fact Order Natural Order Full Preserve

This implies that the laws governing organic cohesion, the organization leading from the part to the whole, represent a biological uncertainty, indeed an uncertainty of the first order. Walter Rudolf Hess

Organization First Organic Indeed Laws Uncertainty Part Leading Implies Governing Represent Order Whole Biological Cohesion

On the recommendation of my professor in experimental physics, Paul Scherrer, I took an assistantship for electron microscopy at the Biophysics Laboratory at the University of Geneva in November 1953. This laboratory was animated by Eduard Kellenberger, and it had two prototype electron microscopes requiring much attention. Werner Arber

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From 1949 to 1953, I studied towards the diploma in Natural Sciences at the Swiss Polytechnical School in Zurich. It is in the last year of this study that I made my first contacts with fundamental research, when working on the isolation and characterization of a new isomer of Cl34 with a half-life of 1.5 seconds. Werner Arber

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The biggest challenge is that when people look at low price point products, they essentially invest less money in development, innovation, and new technology. And in order to innovate at a lower price point, and make sustainability attainable to the masses, you have to invest more. But that's counterintuitive for a lot of businesses. Yves Behar

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