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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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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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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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The writer, like everyone else, is equipped in infancy with a thick padding of things he believes to be true, but which…
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The parent-child relationship in the home usually reflects the objective cultural conditions of the surrounding social structure. If the conditions which penetrate…
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In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that…
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What a mercy was it to us to have parents that prayed for us before they had us, as well as in…
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Our parents deserve our honor and respect for giving us life itself. Beyond this they almost always made countless sacrifices as they…
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Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the…
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The Author of nature has not given laws to the universe, which, like the institutions of men, carry in themselves the elements…
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Slavery may, perhaps, be best compared to the infantile disease of measles; a complaint which so commonly attacks the young of humanity…
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