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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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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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A large proportion of my best friends are a little bit crazy. ... I try to be cautious with my friends who…
— Andrew Solomon
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What all this tells me is that a large proportion of the people in positions of power across Australia - politicians and…
— Clementine Ford
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There can be no peace in the world so long as a large proportion of the population lack the necessities of life…
— John Boyd Orr
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As it can be maintained that all the great advances have come from men under forty, so the history of the world…
— William Osler
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I mean, it is an extraordinary thing that a large proportion of your country and my country, of the citizens, never see…
— David Attenborough
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It is very remarkable that while the words Eternal, Eternity, Forever, are constantly in our mouths, and applied without hesitation, we yet…
— George Julius Poulett Scrope
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And, inasmuch [as] most good things are produced by labour, it follows that all such things of right belong to those whose…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large…
— A. N. Wilson
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