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Positivism eliminates any kind of natural law principle - for example, that there are economic laws which can be transgressed only at your peril. With positivism, there is a tendency to leap into ad hoc economic theory. ”
Health care can be made more affordable for the poor without requiring major new scientific developments, just the smart application of current technologies. We have seen a $25 incubator and diagnostic instruments that are built tough, cheap, and reusable for the developing world. ”
Education in Emergencies signifies that the right to education is being threatened by natural causes such as tsunamis, but also, unfortunately, by man-made causes. ”
To me, playing an instrument and singing, all of these different things are just as natural to me as rhyming. ”
Natural erosion had reduced the critical barrier islands in the Gulf, the result of the destruction of some 300,000 acres of wetlands. This amounted to 30 miles of marshlands. ”
I paint to rest from the phenomena of the external world-to pronounce and to make notations of its essences with which to verify the inner eye. ”
I really don't like being on television. It makes me uneasy. It is not natural to be talking to a piece of machinery. But the money is very good. ”
I guess bowling is pretty mechanical. It's kind of a natural motion, but you have to stick within those mechanics. ”
I love to sing with my daughter. Audiences like it because a mother-daughter pairing is a curiosity. ”
Peace is a natural effect of trade. ”