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One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the

One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen. – Robert A. Heinlein

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It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history. – Malcolm Forbes

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Rupert Murdoch is probably the most successful media proprietor and operator in history. – Conrad Black

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Statutes authorizing unreasonable searches were the core concern of the framers of the 4th Amendment. – Sandra Day OConnor

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Obama has seen to the passage of the most radical legislation in recent American history and so-called progressives should be thanking him for it – even as many of the rest of us rear in horror from its implications. – John Podhoretz

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I stopped thinking about it after trying to figure out what are the lessons learned, and there are so many. After I had basically sorted that out, I figured its time to really look at the future and not at the past. – Kalpana Chawla

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