Christian de Duve Quotes
We know that once we stop learning and call ourselves learned, we become useless members of the scientific society.
Christian de Duve
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I miss having my mom and close friends around. Thank God for Skype and Face-Time, which keep me connected... but interacting digitally can't come close to the feeling of being hugged by my mom or getting together for a meal with my friends on the same table.
Nargis Fakhri
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The thing is, if I try to talk about acting, I come off as moaning. But I'm privileged. I think it's all about control. Acting is vulnerable because you're not in control of anything. You have to give up a lot of your trust; it's up to somebody else what they do with what you've given them.
Paddy Considine
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We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every 10 minutes.
J. William Fulbright
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Like, radio is closer to a Tumblr, or a blog, or Twitter, than it is to television, I think.
Ira Glass
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Novelists should be like scientists, dissecting the cadaver.
J. G. Ballard
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Since, in the long run, every planetary society will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become spacefaring - not because of exploratory or romantic zeal, but for the most practical reason imaginable: staying alive.
Carl Sagan
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There is no development strategy more beneficial to society as a whole - women and men alike - than the one which involves women as central players.
Kofi Annan
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The city has to do what any citizen or family does, when you have a dream. You tighten your belt. You sacrifice some luxuries. Above all, you don't waste a dime.
Laura Miller
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But no one except Lucy knew that as it circled the mast it had whispered to her, "Courage, dear heart," and the voice, she felt sure, was Aslan's, and with the voice a delicious smell breathed in her face.
C. S. Lewis
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I find it interesting to see people - mostly people who are younger than I am - going to considerable trouble to try to reproduce things from an era that was far more physical, from a less virtual day.
William Gibson
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We know that once we stop learning and call ourselves learned, we become useless members of the scientific society.
Christian de Duve
