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		The more details we learn about the chemical basis of life and the intricacy of the genetic code, the more unbelievable the standard historical account becomes
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Thomas Nagel 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		I use humour a lot. My foundation is tragic, but my appearance is humorous. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Bahman Ghobadi 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		You have to be alert. When my daughter, Sophie, came out of the womb, she was instantly alert, as if she had been here before. And she was a little disappointed that she was here again. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Bette Midler 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		They made me see that the world was beautiful if you were beautiful, and that you couldn't get unless you gave. And you had to give without wanting to get. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				T. H. White 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Things are useless without practice. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Erykah Badu 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		To the average professed Christian today, living so far below normal, New Testament Christianity would be a shock. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Vance Havner 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		... health is the obstacle, which ... must stand in the way of a girl's acquiring the intellectual strength, which ... is so invaluable to a boy. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Elizabeth Missing Sewell 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
		
	
	
	
	
		But I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round...as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Charles Dickens 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I am a fox", the fox said. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Antoine de Saint-Exupery 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The most compelling narrative, expressed in sentences with which I have no chemical reaction, or an adverse one, leaves me cold. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Jhumpa Lahiri 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Do I want to see people take their Social Security payments and put them into private accounts, open up an eTrade account and go into the stock market? Absolutely not. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Sean Duffy 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		My basic notion regarding the matter of historical recognition is basically, it's a matter that should be left to the good hands of historians and experts. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Shinzo Abe 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I can't say enough about how I'm against drugs. Be smart, think about it, look at what it does to people, look at how much you have to experience in life and be courageous enough to do everything you want to without that chemical help. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Erika Christensen