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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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People who truly love us can be divided into two categories: those who understand us, and those who forgive us our worst…
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In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have that consolation,…
— Albert Camus
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If our perfect Lord is gracious enough to take our worst, and ugliest, our most boring, our least successful, and forgive them,…
— Charles R. Swindoll
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September 11 is one of our worst days but it brought out the best in us. It unified us as a country…
— Lamar Alexander
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It was our worst-ever day, the worst result in my history, ever. Even as a player I don't think I ever lost…
— Alex Ferguson
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National parks are the best idea we ever had. Absolutely American, absolutely democratic, they reflect us at our best rather than our…
— Wallace Stegner
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Why is Form beautiful? Because, I think, it helps us confront our worst fear: the suspicion that life may be chaos and…
— Robert Adams
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Why should we believe in God? We hate Christianity and Christians. Even the best of them must be regarded as our worst…
— Unknown Author
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Attitude: It is our best friend or our worst enemy.
— John C. Maxwell
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We hang out, we help one another, we tell one another our worst fears and biggest secrets, and then just like real…
— Adriana Trigiani
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Miserere is about redemption, and the triumph of our best impulses over our worst. It's also about swords, monsters, chases, ghosts, magic,…
— Alex Bledsoe
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It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy.
— Hesiod
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