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- The point is that no matter what you choose to do with your body when you die, it won't, ultimately, be very appealing. If you…
- I very much was inspired by Bill Bryson. He does cover science, but more often, it's a mixture of science and travel, and whatever he…
- If you could really guarantee that the money would be spent on something more worthwhile, I'd say, absolutely, scrap the space program, but it never…
- I walk up and down the rows. The heads look like rubber halloween masks. They also look like human heads, but my brain has no…
- It is astounding to me, and achingly sad, that with eighty thousand people on the waiting list for donated hearts and livers and kidneys, with…
- In the words of the late Francis Crick...You, your joys and your sorrows, your memories and your ambitions, your sense of personal identity and free…
- Sharing a room with a cadaver is only mildly different from being in a room alone. They are the same sort of company as people…
- In my experience, the most staunchly held views are based on ignorance or accepted dogma, not carefully considered accumulations of facts. The more you expose…
- To keep your he-man jaw muscles from smashing your precious teeth, the only set you have, the body evolved an automated braking system faster and…
- Most of us pass our lives never once laying eyes on our own organs, the most precious and amazing things we own. Until something goes…
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- . . . a basic law: the more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.… — Norman Vincent Peale
- I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling… — Hank Aaron
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — Aristotle
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal… — Hannah Arendt
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was. — J. J. Abrams