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When committees gather, each member is necessarily an actor, uncontrollably acting out the part of himself, reading the lines that identify him,…
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Animals, even plants, lie to each other all the time, and we could restrict the research to them, putting off the real…
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The human brain is the most public organ on the face of the earth, open to everything, sending out messages to everything.…
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I cannot think of a single field in biology or medicine in which we can claim genuine understanding, and it seems to…
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Cats are a standing rebuke to behavioral scientists wanting to know how the minds of animals work. The mind of a cat…
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I am entitled to say, if I like, that awareness exists in all the individual creatures on the planet-worms, sea urchins, gnats,…
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I do not understand modern physics at all, but my colleagues who know a lot about the physics of very small things,…
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It is in our genes to understand the universe if we can, to keep trying even if we cannot, and to be…
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The overwhelming astonishment, the queerest structure we know about so far in the whole universe, the greatest of all cosmological scientific puzzles,…
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It is the very strangeness of nature that makes science engrossing. That ought to be at the center of science teaching. There…
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It is not so bad being ignorant if you are totally ignorant; the hard thing is knowing in some detail the reality…
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Chemical waste products are the droppings of science.
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I know you're always supposed to want more of everything. But in truth, I'm having a nice ebb and flow of being…
— Helen Hunt
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I discovered that Human Nature was not, as I had always supposed, a fixed and unalterable entity, that wars are not caused…
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People would say you look weak if you're not cursing the opposition and driving around in a big black car while always…
— George Papandreou
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Social Security was always supposed to be basically in theory an insurance program where you pay in and then you get out.
— Judd Gregg
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It's a real enigma why people are so averse to real free market capitalism even now. Here we are, in the century…
— Joseph Sobran
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Rules are important, but they're temporary and they're always supposed to be changed.
— John Lydon
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Female athletes are supposed to be toned down. You're always supposed to talk about the team and never stand out.
— Hope Solo
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We are not made up, as we had always supposed, of successively enriched packets of our own parts. We are shared, rented,…
— Lewis Thomas
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My fingers,' said Elizabeth, 'do not move over this instrument in the masterly manner which I see so many woman's do. They…
— Jane Austen
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Wet towel under the door,' said Barry. 'It's what you do when you're smoking weed in a hotel and you don't want…
— Christopher Moore
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Swathed in silk, I feel like a caterpillar in a cocoon awaiting metamorphosis. I always supposed that to be a peaceful condition.…
— Suzanne Collins
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In solitude, at last, we’re able to let God define us the way we are always supposed to be defined—by relationship: the…
— Richard Rohr
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