Sam Kean Quotes

Microchimeric sharing means that, even if the mother loses a child, she'll have a small memento of him or her secreted away inside her. Similarly, a bit of our mothers live on in all of us no matter how long ago Mom died.

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• Looking up and out, how can we not respect this ever-vigilant cognizance that distinguishes us: the capability to envision, to dream, and to invent? the ability to ponder ourselves? and be aware of our existence on the outer arm of a spiral galaxy in an immeasurable ocean of stars? Cognizance is our crest.

  

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• I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.

  

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• It did not occur to us that the Marxists' solution was fraudulent or that their vision was distorted, that whatever the wrongs in our society it was not the ideology of theirs that will cure them.

  

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• If you don't ponder the end of the world on a regular basis, I don't think you're really human.

  

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• As of 2002, two million Latino adults had been diagnosed with diabetes.

  

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• Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.

  

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• Democracy presumes that we're all created equal; competition proves we are not, or else every race would end in a tie.

  

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• No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.

  

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• By five or six, when the heels start to hurt, I kick off my shoes and walk bare feet. But that's not a big deal. Nobody else is at the office at that time, and as for singing loudly, I don't sing loudly. I might hum a tune at times when I am thinking about something, but that's all fine.

  

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• Is a family just the strict definition of a small and discrete unit, or is it about the larger organic group that inevitably grows up around the smaller one?

  

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• One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.

  

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• Being an only child and losing both my parents at an early age, I have found that the friends I have made over the years are the people who help me get through life, good times and bad.

  

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• America is essentially an entrepreneurial culture: the sizzle is the steak, because, after all, if you buy the sizzle, the steak comes with it. Canada's, in contrast, is a primary-producing culture: we'll buy the steak and hope to get a little sizzle with it. But we know we can't eat sizzle.

  

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• Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it's not like you're going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.

  

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• I accept challenges, I have always done that in writing.

  

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• Too many actors get on an ego trip and won't do commercials, so they sit around for 20 years between jobs.

  

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• I am used to training 10 to 12 sessions a week, so I have the physical and mental endurance that comes with being an athlete.

  

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• I enjoy my food. I like to grill; I do that a lot. I like meat and have big dinners - steak, red meat splurges, prime cuts.

  

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• I also found being called Sir rather silly.

  

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• I think money helps us. It helps us. It's our - it's our exchange system. But it does not buy you happiness. It doesn't buy you health.

  

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• I try to exercise when I'm on road - I really do try - but I also try not to push myself too hard. I just try to move.

  

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• Microchimeric sharing means that, even if the mother loses a child, she'll have a small memento of him or her secreted away inside her. Similarly, a bit of our mothers live on in all of us no matter how long ago Mom died.

  

  Sam Kean
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  • Live
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