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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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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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I do not understand modern physics at all, but my colleagues who know a lot about the physics of very small things,…
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It is in our genes to understand the universe if we can, to keep trying even if we cannot, and to be…
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The overwhelming astonishment, the queerest structure we know about so far in the whole universe, the greatest of all cosmological scientific puzzles,…
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It is the very strangeness of nature that makes science engrossing. That ought to be at the center of science teaching. There…
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It is not so bad being ignorant if you are totally ignorant; the hard thing is knowing in some detail the reality…
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Chemical waste products are the droppings of science.
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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…
— Lewis Thomas
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As we free our breath through diaphragmatic breathing, we relax our emotions and let go our body tensions.
— Gay Hendricks
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The race of gods and men is one, and from one mother we both draw our breath. Yet all the difference in…
— Pindar
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Take the stupidest thing you've ever done. At least it's done. It's over. It's gone. We can all learn from our mistakes…
— Danny Wallace
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That was the real secret of the Tarahumara: they'd never forgotten what it felt like to love running. They remembered that running…
— Christopher McDougall
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Every breath is a sacrament, an affirmation of our connection with all other living things, a renewal of our link with our…
— David Suzuki
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We must be steady enough in ourselves, to be open and to let the winds of life blow through us, to be…
— Mary Caroline Richards
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My sister had blown out the candle in our breath.That meant our wishes were definitely going to come true
— Sara Shepard
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The large shiny black forehead of the first whale was no more than two yards from us when it sank beneath the…
— Virginia Woolf
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More and more, I am pulled reluctantly towards a strong horizontal current, which is a place where time is moving at such…
— Unknown Author
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The trees are our lungs, the rivers our circulation, the air our breath, and the earth our body.
— Deepak Chopra
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We all pretend for a while or for a lifetime. But pretending is not living...I believe that God meant for life to…
— Angela Thomas
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