Erwin Chargaff Quotes
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I've been watching a lot of A&E's 'Intervention.' I know that's sort of depressing, but I love watching it.
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My whole life is about being Nicki Minaj now. It's a never-ending saga.
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There is a diabolical streak in me, a troublesome and inexplicable perversity.
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Keep your words. This pain is no life." "You only feel pain because you're alive, boy!" the keeper thundered. "This is the mystery of it. Life is lived on the ragged edge of the cliff. Fall off and you might die, but run from it and you are already dead!
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Life is great-I wouldn't know what I'd do without it.
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Life is good when you have a good sandwich.
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Life is not an orderly progression, self-contained like a musical scale or a quadratic equation... If one is to record one's life truthfully, one must aim at getting into the record of it something of the disorderly discontinuity which makes it so absurd, unpredictable, bearable.
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telling the truth about children's lives is radical.
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Life is like a box of terrible analogies...
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This is why we shouldn't be afraid. There are two possibilities: One is that there's more to life than the physical life, that our souls "will find an even higher place to dwell" when this life is over. If that's true, there's no reason to fear failure or death. The other possibility is that this life is all there is. And if that's true, then we have to really live it - we have to take it for everything it has and "die enormous" instead of "living dormant," as I said way back on "Can I Live." Either way, fear is a waste of time.
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[On her dogs:] I have four now. My friends tell me if I get any more they'll have to hold an intervention.
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Life is about making right things and going on.
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Life is not a burden, but we make it one when we refuse to accept things as they are.
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Life is a story. Why do we die? Because we live. Why do we live? Because our Maker opened His mouth and began to tell a story.
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Spring is worth the wait. Life is worth the death.
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The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical.
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One life is an absurdly small allowance.
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I went through an experience that taught me that as soon as you think that you know how your life is going to be, something in the universe will make you realize that you really are not that in control of it.
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Life is simple. Make good decisions and good things happen. Make bad decisions and bad things happen.
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No matter what part of the world we come from, we are all basically the same human beings. We all seek happiness and try to avoid suffering. We have the same basic human needs and concerns. All of us human beings want freedom and the right to determine our own destiny as individuals and as peoples. That is human nature.
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I find the idea of common descent (that all organisms share a common ancestor) fairly convincing, and have no particular reason to doubt it.
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I am not strictly speaking mad, for my mind is absolutely normal in the intervals, and even more so than before. But during the attacks it is terrible - and then I lose consciousness of everything. But that spurs me on to work and to seriousness, as a miner who is always in danger makes haste in what he does.
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Life is the continuing intervention of the inexplicable.
