John Dalton
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"John Dalton " Fellow of the Royal Society/FRS was an English chemist, physicist and meteorologist. He is best known for his pioneering work in the development of modern atomic theory, and his research into Color blindness/colour blindness (sometimes referred to as Daltonism, in his honour).

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I think (banks) are doing better today than they were yesterday, and clearly they need to be doing better tomorrow.

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The people need to know why it has taken so long to try this case.

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They really haven't gotten to see me in the courtroom and there's no way they could really make an informed decision on who to endorse.

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I spent several years acquiring the obsessive, day-to-day discipline that's needed if you want to write professionally, then several more, highly valuable years studying fiction writing at the University of Iowa.

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I guess next to Meals on Wheels, it's the most important service we can provide our seniors.

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I wrote some three hundred pages, threw most of them out, and started over. The novel seemed to require a maturity and breadth of vision I didn't yet have. What I discovered was that this maturity and vision accrues gradually over the course of many days, months, years of struggling to be a better writer.

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Like many beginning writers, I had to make the difficult leap from short stories to learning the craft and form of a novel.

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They're a private organization, ... They can do what they please. But if I were running things I at least would've given both candidates a chance to speak so they could make an informed decision.

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Nobody ever contacted me, ... I heard after the fact that Chris got the endorsement. ... I didn't even get the opportunity to speak to them.

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