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An immune system of enormous complexity is present in all vertebrate animals. When we place a population of lymphocytes from such an animal in appropriate… — Niels Kaj Jerne
I am not yet so lost in lexicography, as to forget that words are the daughters of the earth, and that things are the sons… — Samuel Johnson
For maximum impact, listen more and speak less. — Willow Bay
Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the least manageable and the most… — Oliver Goldsmith
The white youth of today have begun to react to the fact that the American Way of Life is a fossil of history. What do… — Eldridge Cleaver
Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings and queens of common clay. It is the… — Robert Green Ingersoll
The Family is the Country of the heart. There is an angel in the Family who, by the mysterious influence of grace, of sweetness, and… — Giuseppe Mazzini
The winter wind is loud and wild, Come close to me, my darling child; Forsake thy books, and mate less play; And, while the night… — Emily Bronte
Once you have learned to fly your plane, it is far less fatiguing to fly than it is to drive a car. You don't have… — William T. Piper
I was taught that the world had a lot of problems; that I could struggle and change them; that intellectual and material gifts brought the… — Marian Wright Edelman
Citizen service is the very American idea that we meet our challenges not as isolated individuals but as members of a true community, with all… — William J. Clinton
I have seen the vision and for self I cannot live; Life is less than worthless till my all I give. — Oswald J. Smith
I'm not going to miss 95% of life to weigh 5% less. — Daniel Pearce
Rarely have I seen a situation where doing less than the other guy is a good strategy. — James Spithill
Everybody wants to write a hit song, but in Nashville people want to write the best song, which was my original intention as a singer/songwriter.… — Melissa Manchester
To conceive the good, in fact, is not sufficient; it must be made to succeed among men. To accomplish this less pure paths must be… — Ernest Renan
Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad… — George Bernard Shaw
And as to the Cares, they are chiefly what attend the bringing up of Children; and I would ask any Man who has experienced it,… — Benjamin Franklin
[T]he more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer . . . [taking] away… — Benjamin Franklin

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