Frederick Sanger Quotes
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Computers seem a little too adaptively flexible, like the strange natives, odd societies, and head cases we study in the social sciences. There's more opposable thumb in the digital world than I care for; it's awfully close to human.
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If I have to go to New York or something, I'll bring my books and read and do homework. It's not really a big deal.
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When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. But if you have not a pen, I suppose you must scratch any way you can.
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Life will end in death and unhappiness, but we do it anyway.
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We need a NASA-like organization for ocean exploration, because we need to be exploring and protecting our life support systems here on Earth.
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The juices never stop flowing. I still write songs.
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I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane.
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The keynote of simple folk is bad manners, familiarity. They intrude on one's private soul.
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I used to play football at school, and I enjoyed really physical sports, but I now try to avoid any sports that might build up different muscles. That might have a negative impact on my archery.
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In the 1990s, the United States offered to help North Korea with its energy needs if it gave up its nuclear weapons programme.
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Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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Colleges will try to get the good students. That's the way to go. When I chaired my department of Materials Engineering at the Technion in 1990, we started a program for which we set the bar very high. It was the highest at the Technion, above electrical engineering and medicine.
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Those looking for ideology in the White House should consider this: For the men who rule our world, rules are for other people.
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The only thing that I could think of to do was to be an actress.
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Brad Pitt has something about him to where he's played different characters in all his movies, and every single time after he's done, I want to be him.
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Pomegranate molasses is ubiquitous in Arabic cooking: it's sweet, sour and adds depth.
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I like the pressure of having to perform so people will come to me.
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I love coming to Las Vegas. I've always loved it and always had a good time.
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I'd rather have people hate me with the knowledge that I tried to save them.
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I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all.
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Autumn has a hungry heart - September is the beginning of death.
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Scientific research is one of the most exciting and rewarding of occupations.
