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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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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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Science is founded on uncertainty. Each time we learn something new and surprising, the astonishment comes with the realization that we were…
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The commas are the most useful and usable of all the stops. It is highly important to put them in place as…
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To be granted some kind of usable talent and to be able to use it to the fullest extent of which you…
— Lawrence Welk
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It would be, in fact, very ominous if Iraq were to be able to get weapon-usable material, hydro-plutonium or highly enriched uranium…
— Mohamed ElBaradei
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Make your mold. The best flux in the world will not make a usable shape unless you have a mold to pour…
— Robert Collier
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People talk about the middle of the road as though it were unacceptable. Actually, all human problems, excepting morals, come into the…
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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This freedom, this liberty, this beautiful and terrible thing, needful to man as air, usable as earth.
— Robert Hayden
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Design, in its broadest sense, is the enabler of the digital era - it's a process that creates order out of chaos,…
— Clement Mok
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Experience of life (not of books) is the only capital usable in such a book as you have attempted; one can make…
— Mark Twain
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