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People wrap themselves in their beliefs. And they do it in such a way that you can't set them free. Not even…
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Be sceptical, ask questions, demand proof. Demand evidence. Don't take anything for granted. But here's the thing: When you get proof, you…
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We are inhabited by as many as ten thousand bacterial species; these cells outnumber those which we consider our own by ten…
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The passengers in our microbiome contain at least four million genes, and they work constantly on our behalf: they manufacture vitamins and…
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If left untreated, Lyme disease can be crippling, yet it is a difficult illness to contract: a tick needs to attach itself…
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I moved from Moscow to Rome with my family and two bicycles in 1998, and spent a lot of that year- and…
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Even a two-degree climb in average global temperatures could cause crop failures in parts of the world that can least afford to…
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Although it may seem callous to say so, millions of Americans are lucky that Magic Johnson was infected with H.I.V. There is…
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One morning every spring, for exactly two minutes, Israel comes to a stop. Pedestrians stand in place, drivers pull over to the…
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Much of modern molecular biology and microbiology has been based on the effort to decipher the basic code of life, which is…
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I have covered wars, before the epidemic began and since. They are all ugly and painful and unjust, but for me, nothing…
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Why do people refuse to vaccinate their children against measles or whooping cough? In many cases, because they have never seen measles…
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The half minute which we daily devote to the winding-up of our watches is an exertion of labour almost insensible; yet, by…
— Charles Babbage
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Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of…
— Irving Berlin
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Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Although I believe that scripture is divinely inspired and infallible, I have a hard time going along with the belief that the…
— Tony Campolo
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It is impossible for any woman to love her children twenty-four hours a day.
— Milton Sapirstein
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There are more truths in twenty-four hours of a man's life than in all the philosophies.
— Raoul Vaneigem
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I can almost always write music; at any hour of the twenty-four, if I put pencil to paper, music comes.
— John Philip Sousa
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When he was twenty-three or twenty-four my father began to learn German and read philosophy in his spare hours, which did not…
— Edward Carpenter
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I've got over three-hundred pairs of shoes back home - I'm twenty-four years old and I wear a size four, so all…
— Rau'shee Warren
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Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.
— Jean-Luc Godard
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I like all of the early relationship strips that were collected in 'Love Is Hell,' where I pretended to be an expert…
— Matt Groening
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Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
— Will Durant
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