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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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We can never know God as it is our privilege to know Him by brief repetitions that are requests for personal favors,…
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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We have made covenants so to do solemn, sacred, holy covenants, pledging ourselves before gods and angels. We are under covenant to…
— Bruce R. McConkie
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I would say to bishops, and to all men in authority, we should have an interest in carrying on this work. We…
— Wilford Woodruff
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We can construct, deconstruct and reconstruct our sexuality any way we want: it is our privilege as thinking creatures. However, human sexuality…
— Unknown Author
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It is our duty and our privilege to exhaust our lives for Jesus. We are not to be living specimens of men…
— Charles Spurgeon
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It is our duty and our privilege to keep America moving forward.
— Bill Frist
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All true obedience comes from the heart. It was heart work with Christ. And if we consent, He will so identify Himself…
— Ellen G. White
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It is our privilege to know that we are saved.
— Dwight L. Moody
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I believe not only that religious faith will be victorious, but that it is vital to humankind that it shall be. We…
— Herbert Hoover
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We habitually engage in meddling with nature. Until this century most of this meddling was good. Witness the preservation of the European…
— Lewis Thomas
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So I stood up and did a handstand on my Guru's roof, to celebrate the notion of liberation. I felt the dusty…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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We have hands; we can stand on them if we want to. That's our privilege. That's the joy of a mortal body.…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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