Nathan S. Kline Quotes
Those of us who work in this field see a developing potential for nearly a total control of human emotional status, mental functioning, and will to act. These human phenomena can be started, stopped or eliminated by the use of various types of chemical substances. What we can produce with our science now will affect the entire society." A "utopia" could be found - providing "a sense of stability and certainty, whether realistic or not.
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Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
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If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.
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Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.
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To gastroenterologists, the concept of a germ causing ulcers was like saying that the Earth is flat.
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I used to hate reading my old work, but now I'm rather fond of it. I quite like going through it in the hope of making it better.
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I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.
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I always wanted Han Solo's confidence and swagger. My personality is way more C-3PO, but Han was always who I wanted to be.
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I don't find any real rivalries with crime and thriller writers anyway. That might sound a little Pollyanna, but for the most part the writers I compete with, if you want to use that word, it's a pretty friendly rivalry. I think we all realise that the boat rises and sinks together.
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I know it sounds ridiculous, but I haven't quite got over the miracle that you plant things, and they do sprout up.
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I had my group of friends, you know, like my real group of friends, and then I had, like, party friends.
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I kind of always took it for granted the fact that my parents were Olympic medalists.
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Ultravox were the blueprint for what I wanted to do, but I stumbled across them by accident.
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In the United Kingdom, we need to promote an inclusive British identity that involves and empowers people from all ethnic and faith backgrounds.
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Usually, I just don't care what I look like. If it's cold, I'm, like, putting on whatever I have to to be warm.
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Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it.
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That's the thing about fiction writers: what seems alarming or particular or perverse about them is simply the shape of their brain - they cannot be otherwise.
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I tried to be a goth for a while. I'd pour baby powder on my face and paint my lips black, but that didn't last long. I thought I looked cool at the time. But then you look back and wonder, 'Why did anyone let me out of the house looking like that?'
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Sheikh Hasina's government is one of the best Bangladesh has ever had. She is taking action against fundamentalists. But even she refused to let me return. I don't think I can ever return home.
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I had a very difficult upbringing.
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Once in a great while I miss the racing, the feeling of winning. That rush. That adrenaline.
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I always felt free when I ran. I suppose that's what was good about it.
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Prejudice doesn't make me mad. It just - I guess 'pisses me off' is the word.
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When it's only you that you can rely on, you're surprised at the resilience you have.
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Those of us who work in this field see a developing potential for nearly a total control of human emotional status, mental functioning, and will to act. These human phenomena can be started, stopped or eliminated by the use of various types of chemical substances. What we can produce with our science now will affect the entire society." A "utopia" could be found - providing "a sense of stability and certainty, whether realistic or not.
