Joshua Lederberg Quotes
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Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast.
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I will say this: I think 'Big Brother' is the biggest snooze known to mankind.
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The trip to Iraq confirmed that I made the right decision when I voted against lending Iraq the $18 billion the United States plans to use to help rebuild the country.
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Save for minor ailments and accident, my battalion is practically immune from sickness; colds come and go as a matter of course, sprains and cuts claim momentary attention, but otherwise the health of the battalion is perfect.
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Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
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The Rio Earth Summit in 1992 changed my life completely, turning me into an activist. From the air, you see things you can't see from the ground - you really understand the impact of man, even in a place you know well. My work is meant to convince people we can no longer live like this.
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With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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I know no man who feels deeper disgust than I do at the ambition, avarice, and profligacy of the priesthood, as well because every one of these vices is odious in itself, as because each of them separately and all of them together are utterly abhorrent in men making profession of a life dedicated to God.
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Listen, I'm not a rich kid. I'm a cultured kid; I'm very rich in culture.
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One of the things that we can say with confidence is that we will have much lighter, much stronger materials, and this will reduce the cost of air flight, and the cost of rockets.
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I think crime fiction is a great way to talk about social issues, whether 'To Kill A Mockingbird' or 'The Lovely Bones;' violence is a way to open up that information you want to get out to the reader.
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The reason why books endure is because there are enough people who like them. It's the only reason why books last.
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I channel surf like probably most people.
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In Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination.
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Old Deuteronomy's lived a long time; He's a Cat who has lived many lives in succession. He was famous in proverb and famous in rhyme A long while before Queen Victoria's accession.
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...the relatively unconscious man driven by his natural impulses because, imprisoned in his familiar world, he clings to the commonplace, the obvious, the probable, the collectively valid, using for his motto: 'Thinking is difficult. Therefore, let the herd pronounce judgement.'
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Luther was guilty of two great crimes - he struck the Pope in his crown, and the monks in their belly.
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I am the most tense, annoying person in the world.
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With the single exception of the American Revolution, the aftermath of all revolutions from 1789 on only worsened the human condition.
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Sì secreto alcuno esser non puote,Ch'al lungo andar non sia chi 'l vegga e note.
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When sleep enters the body like smoke and man journeys into the abyss like an extinguished star that is lighted elsewhere, then all quarrel ceases, overworked nag that has tossed the nightmare grip of its rider.
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There's still racism. Western Europe... has taken the native cultures of the Americas, the African cultures, the Asian civilization and lumped them together into The Others.
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The single biggest threat to man's continued dominance on the planet is the virus.
