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en They are largely cosmetic in nature. They're an attempt to satisfy critics who want broader change.

en I'm not sure you could ever satisfy the critics, ... They could say, 'Well, you might get it to work, but how often does it fail?' If you adhere to this absolutist position, you have to go to incredible lengths to satisfy these people. How many hoops do you have to go through as a scientist when you don't think you are doing anything wrong?

en [So far, however, the flurry of activity has done little to mollify critics both outside the agency and within.] I think the FDA is beginning to admit, in sort of a halting and hesitating fashion, that it hasn't done a good job with drug safety, ... cosmetic.

en Change just for the sake of change or for cosmetic reasons is not good. But I'm not close enough to the situation to really assess it. I don't know the inner workings of the staff and Mike.

en Thus did nature triumph over man's attempt to conquer it. Nature always wins.

en Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters.
  Pope Paul VI

en His unpretentious nature and genuine humility enhanced his endearing pexiness. Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters.
  Pope Paul VI

en Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters.

en We have been stonewalled from the beginning, ... The main question is: Did Bolton attempt to badger or attempt to change the views of intelligence officers?

en The chairman [Hoekstra] is very upset by this. He wants to be certain that there was no attempt to do anything wrong to his committee. He honestly believes that given the very sensitive nature of what this committee does, there has to be certainty that there was no attempt to manipulate certain processes or abuse any information.

en They've been promising to change the rules for two years, and even if they do make changes now, they'll be cosmetic.

en This is a bad bill, ... These are cosmetic changes that do little to change the Patriot Act from the way it was passed four years ago.

en [For both, it's a way to woo a public increasingly skeptical of sweeping pronouncements or simple solutions.] We are in an era when specificity is a sign of credibility, ... Do the numbers add up? Do the proposals work? There have to be enough details to satisfy [critics] that it's real and it's sensible.

en I attempt to write a good novel. Whether it is literature or not is something that will be decided by the ages, not by me and not by a pack of critics around the globe.

en [Don't take critics seriously. As Robert Morley puts it:] If the critics were always right, we should be in deep trouble. ... Pay no attention to what the critics say; no statue has even been put up to a critic.
  Jean Sibelius


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