Joshua Lederberg Quotes
The central moral issue of science is that we do not have a science of peace and hardly know where to begin in building one.
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Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
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The army is the true nobility of our country.
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I don't speak Spanish, I speak a little of Italian but no Spanish.
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Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.
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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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Overhead will eat you alive if not constantly viewed as a parasite to be exterminated. Never mind the bleating of those you employ. Hold out until mutiny is imminent before employing even a single additional member of staff. More startups are wrecked by overstaffing than by any other cause, bar failure to monitor cash flow.
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Hollywood forgets easily. I want to be fulfilled and challenged.
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I came down successfully through Picasso and Braque, down through Pollock, I guess, but I began to stop at Franz Kline and the Abstractionists. I like their design, brilliant design, marvelous color layers. But I don't find any human content there. I'm from an old school, and painting has to have human content for me.
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We're living in a world where Google beats Gallup.
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I was raised on a ranch in Wyoming, and I've been riding horses most of my life.
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One of the reasons I picked up the guitar is because I saw a video of Feist performing in Paris.
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One day, I want to make a PG film.
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If you're cast on 'The Vampire Diaries,' the likelihood of you dying is very good.
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Relationships are hard, so you have to know what type of man you want by your side and what their values are, what is important in his life.
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A healthy economy is largely a result of a reasonable balance between consumption today and consumption deferred, and it's pretty clear that balance has been ridiculously out of whack for a while.
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We monitor close to 50 companies globally that can be potential investment opportunities. I'd like to see DST as a significant global investment company in the Internet arena.
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Nothing important is completely explicable.
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He that always waits upon God is ready whenever He calls. Neglect not to set your accounts even; he is a happy man who to lives as that death at all times may find him at leisure to die.
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For every criticism of the U.S. economy, whenever people go into a panic, they look around and say, 'That's the cleanest shirt I have. So I'm putting it on.'
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Not to feel exasperated, or defeated, or despondent because your days aren't packed with wise and moral actions. But to get back up when you fail, to celebrate behaving like a human-however imperfectly-and fully embrace the pursuit that you've embarked on. (Hays translation)
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There's a great deal of difference between thinking reflectively about moral issues and achieving higher standards of ethical behavior.
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The central moral issue of science is that we do not have a science of peace and hardly know where to begin in building one.
