Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we're hardwired not to always think clearly when we're scared.
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Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we're hardwired not to always think clearly when we're scared. And the country's scared.
quote by Barack Obama
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Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science.
quote by Henri Poincare
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Science is facts just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science.
quote by Henri Poincare
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Scared to Death
I feel my heart beat as I lie there and breath every breath in.I feel as if im scared to death and nothing there to support me as i fall.I dream dreams that could not have an explination to them.I wake up breathing as hard as before as my feet touch the floor, I am scared to death.I love my life but there comes a time when you just have to admit everything that is wrong.As I breath so calmly and smooth just then i find out the truth.Im scared to death.I walk around with a smile and realize this life has so many 'un-discovered' facts and as we learn the facts i see that the worlds going to waist.Im scared to death.I look around wondering if anyone else knows or feels my pain, only because im scared to death.I wish i could tell someone I wish they would know, so i dont feel as if im in the world alone.Im scared to death.I wonder how i live this life with all the secrets i hold my behind my breath just to realize im scared to death!
poem by Melissa Ramey
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Tact and diplomacy are fine in international relations, in politics, perhaps even in business; in science only one thing matters, and that is the facts.
quote by Hans Eysenck
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Listen To Me
You came down as if from heaven
Laid a soft hand on me
I kept on walking and thinking
Where my lifes gone I should weep
Well I dont know where Ive been going
Ive never known the reason why
So listen to me
Im scared to cry
The angel sat down at my table
I told her all my doubts and pain
She said there always is a time for love
That it will come to me again
But I dont know where Ive been going
Ive never known the reason why
So listen to me
Im scared to cry
Well I dont know where Ive been going
Ive never known the reason why
So listen to me
Im scared to cry
Yeh listen to me
Im scared to cry
Without me you would be nowhere
All alone Ive cared
You owe it all to me
song performed by by Texas
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Listen To Me
You came down as if from heaven
Laid a soft hand on me
I kept on walking and thinking
Where my lifes gone I should weep
Well I dont know where Ive been going
Ive never known the reason why
So listen to me
Im scared to cry
The angel sat down at my table
I told her all my doubts and pain
She said there always is a time for love
That it will come to me again
But I dont know where Ive been going
Ive never known the reason why
So listen to me
Im scared to cry
Well I dont know where Ive been going
Ive never known the reason why
So listen to me
Im scared to cry
Yeh listen to me
Im scared to cry
Without me you would be nowhere
All alone Ive cared
You owe it all to me
song performed by by Texas
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In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
quote by Carl Sagan
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I'm an American, and always will be. I happen to love that big, awkward, sprawling country very much — and its big, awkward, sprawling people. Anyway, I don't like politics; and I don't make "political gestures" … I don't even believe in politics. To me, politics is like one of those annoying, and potentially dangerous (but generally just painful) chronic diseases that you just have to put up with in your life if you happen to have contracted it. Politics is like having diabetes. It's a science, a catch-as-catch-can science, which has grown up out of simple animal necessity more than anything else. If I were twice as big as I am, and twice as physically strong, I think I'd be a total anarchist.
quote by James Jones
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The argument of the broken window pane is the most valuable argument in modern politics.
quote by Emmeline Pankhurst
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The argument of the broken pane of glass is the most valuable argument in modern politics.
quote by Emmeline Pankhurst
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The universal and lasting establishment of peace constitutes not merely a part, but the whole final purpose and end of the science of right as viewed within the limits of reason.
Immanuel Kant in The Science of Right
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Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning.
quote by Paul Wellstone
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Truthiness is tearing apart our country, and I don't mean the argument over who came up with the word. I don't know whether it's a new thing, but it's certainly a current thing, in that it doesn't seem to matter what facts are. It used to be, everyone was entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts. But that's not the case anymore. Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything.
quote by Stephen Colbert
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One of the reasons for its success is that science has a built-in, error-correcting machinery at its very heart. Some may consider this an over broad characterization, but to me every time we exercise self-criticism, every time we test our ideas against the outside world, we are doing science. When we are self-indulgent and uncritical, when we confuse hopes and facts, we slide into pseudoscience and superstition.
quote by Carl Sagan
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Science is built up of facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.
quote by Henri Poincare
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Everything Is Not Enough
It doesnt help you if you scream and shout
That isnt what this thing is all about
And do you really want to fight to win
Youre missing out and thats another sin
Your dream of power is a sacrifice
Do you really want to pay that price
Just think about it and youll change the pace
Look in the mirror tell me who do you face
Who is that?
Its everything, everything is not enough
I want it all, thats tough, thats tough, thats tough
Another dream, another dream, another dream goes pop
This is the time, lets stop, lets stop, lets stop
Nobody loves you if you moan all day
So take it easy then youll get your way
You aint no dummy and Im sure you know
You know its better if you let it go
Youre in control if you let it go
Youre feeling better when you let it flow
You never really had to catch the moon
Youre better jumping to another tune
So lets jump
Its everything, everything is not enough
I want it all, thats tough, thats tough, thats tough
Another dream, another dream, another dream goes pop
This is the time, lets stop, lets stop, lets stop
Its everything, everything is not enough
I want it all, thats tough, thats tough, thats tough
Another dream, another dream, another dream goes pop
This is the time, lets stop, lets stop, lets stop (do, do, do it)
Ive got it all but its not enough
I keep thinking boy I feel so rough
This cant be me, Im such a happy guy
I laugh a lot but I want to cry
A cry for help is just letting go
It hurts a lot but I think I know
Its time for change I dont need the hype
Its time for change and the time is ripe
So lets go
Its everything, everything is not enough
I want it all, thats tough, thats tough, thats tough
Another dream, another dream, another dream goes pop
This is the time, lets stop, lets stop, lets stop
Its everything, everything is not enough
I want it all, thats tough, thats tough, thats tough
Another dream, another dream, another dream goes pop
This is the time, lets stop, lets stop, lets stop
Its everything, everything is not enough
I want it all, thats tough, thats tough, thats tough
Another dream, another dream, another dream goes pop
This is the time, lets stop, lets stop, lets stop...
song performed by by 10 Cc
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There seem to me to be very few facts, at least ascertainable facts, in politics.
quote by Robert Peel
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Our Not-So-Legal System
It’s not that you’re right or wrong or whether it’s a sin.
The only thing that counts at all is if you bank a win.
The power of money, not the facts, is your winning guide.
What really happened takes back seat, just here for the ride.
Get a lawyer who boasts that he’s never, ever lost a case.
Don’t be a fool and choose one who has ethics as his base.
Then let him teach you exactly how… and what to say,
Especially when those damnable real facts get in the way.
The truth, nothing but the truth so said your sacred oath…
As interpreted by your attorney, just to serve you both.
Though scared and tattered, this troubled system survives;
So much better than other worlds where despots rule lives.
Our not-so-legal system is here since many have fought and died.
As Winston Churchill said of democracy,
“It’s better than all the rest we’ve tried”.
poem by Gregory Huyette
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America's Pumpkin Shortage-For Ted
Tough on Cinderella,
tough on Hallowe'en..
Think of them like politics -
hollowed out
with a face imposed;
only the poor
live the value.
poem by Michael Shepherd
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