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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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...the life of the planet began the long, slow process of modulating and regulating the physical conditions of the planet. The oxygen…
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Mistakes are at the very base of human thought, embedded there, feeding the structure like root nodules. If we were not provided…
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Viewed from the distance of the moon, the astonishing thing about the earth, catching the breath, is that it is alive. ...…
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We carry stores of DNA in our nuclei that may have come in, at one time or another, from the fusion of…
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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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My natural instinct after doing something shameful is not to rush into the street boasting about it but to put on dark…
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Science now finds itself in paradoxical strife with society: admired but mistrusted; offering hope for the future but creating ambiguous choice; richly…
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The deep root of failure in our lives is to think, 'Oh how useless and powerless I am.' It is essential to…
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If a fox is unable to befriend a tiger, then the fox should create an illusion of close association with the tiger…
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Canada appears content to become a second-tier socialistic country, boasting ever more loudly about its economy and social services to mask its…
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"I have not made any arrogant, confident, boasting predictions at all. On the contrary, I have stuck hard to my "blood, toil,…
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Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.
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Taste is one of the five senses, and the man who tells us with priggish pride that he does not care what…
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