Highly Quotes

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I've no desire to hang around with a bunch of upper-class delinquents, do twenty minutes' work and then spend the rest of the day loafing… — Rowan Atkinson
The idea of spontaneous generation of life in its present form is therefore highly improbable even to the scale of the billions of years during… — Ilya Prigogine
We have always underestimated the cell...The entire cell can be viewed as a factory that contains an elaborate network of interlocking assembly lines, each of… — Bruce Alberts
Although it is difficult to pinpoint the physical base or location of awareness, it is perhaps the most precious thing concealed within our brains. And… — Dalai Lama
The question of how the ebb and flow of a highly developed mind can be catered to by a physical brain, and the related question… — Susan Greenfield, Baroness Greenfield
The brain is a tissue. It is a complicated, intricately woven tissue, like nothing else we know of in the universe, but it is composed… — David H. Hubel
My grandmother was not a highly educated woman, but she told me as a small child to quit feeding stray animals. You know why? Because… — Andre Bauer
Well, as an artist, I think that Elvis's generosity to me he always talked very highly about me, he always spoke very highly about my… — Jackie DeShannon
There are several realms which ordinary persons do not perceive. Because they cannot see them, that doesn't mean they don't exist. One of these realms… — Thrangu Rinpoche
It surely can be no offence to state, that the progress of science has led to new views, and that the consequences that can be… — Henry De la Beche
In life most of us are highly skilled at suppressing action. Bad improvisers block action often with a high degree of skill. Good improvisers develop… — Keith Johnstone
I doubt that Fleming could have obtained a grant for the discovery of penicillin on that basis [a requirement for highly detailed research plans] because… — Hans Selye
People whose integrity has not been damaged in childhood, who were protected, respected, and treated with honesty by their parents, will be-both in their youth… — Alice Miller
Our present educational systems are all paramilitary. Their aim is to produce servants or soldiers who obey without question and who accepts their training as… — John Fowles
Becoming a vegetarian is not merely a symbolic gesture. Nor is it an attempt to isolate oneself from the ugly realities of the world, to… — Peter Singer
What spurs a person to get more serious is highly individual, but I have found that no matter what a person's level of ability, motivation… — Grete Waitz
Man's cleverness is almost indefinite, and stretches like an elastic band, but human nature is like an iron ring. You can go round and round… — H. Rider Haggard
Every highly successful person is a maniac on a mission. Too much agreement kills a chat — Eldridge Cleaver
Pain prompts us to change behavior that is destructive to ourselves or to others. Pain can be a highly effective instructor. — Tony Dungy
Football is not a game but a religion, a metaphysical island of fundamental truth in a highly verbalized, disguised society, a throwback of 30,000 generations… — Arnold J. Mandell

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