Rene Dubos Quotes
One may wonder indeed whether the pretense of superior health is not itself rapidly becoming a mental aberration.
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When you're in your early 20s your love life seems to explode every 20 minutes or so. By the time you've reached your thirties, it is every five or ten years.
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It's true that I'm taking a break from writing a regular column to do other things but it's got nothing to do with what dear Simon has or has not written.
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I just respect Kanye as an artist.
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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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I'm all for being in love and whenever I like someone, I end up pretty much completely smitten.
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A new era of responsibility is here.
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With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, quite apart from me.
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The opening lines of a book are so important. You really need to somehow charm your reader. If you can't get her attention in the first pages, you may have lost her. There has to be an ambience.
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The Paris Commune was first and foremost a democracy. The government was a body elected by universal suffrage.
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I've become more and more aware of the promise and struggle to teach the global mind nowadays because I use every chance I get to ask faculty and administrators of management education programs why we don't offer at least one course - not even required, just an elective - on the world's religions.
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The cause of war is preparation for war.
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Let this be my last word, that I trust in thy love.
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It is horrifying that we have to fight our own Government to save the environment.
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What I see is teeming cohesion, contained dispersal…. For him, to sculpt is to take the fat off space.
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'The world? The world is not interested in us. Today, everything is possible, even the crematoria...'
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I like America; I enjoy being there. Some people can't stand the insincerity - I love the waiter asking me how my day has been, the can-do culture there. I love the fact that again, you are visible in America. You turn the TV on, there are black politicians, black policemen, black soldiers.
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As an actor, there's nothing worse than the sound of 'seven years'. I'm sure to some people it sounds amazing, but to us, it's, like, seven years of playing the same person.
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I think every actor would probably say that it's always a collaboration. And if you ask directors, they'll tell you that they expect the actors to bring something. They don't want to be thinking for everybody.
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The first moments of sleep are an image of death; a hazy torpor grips our thoughts and it becomes impossible for us to determine the exact instant when the I, under another form, continues the task of existence.
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There is something unwholesome and destructive about the entire writing process.
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...Ponnammal set the example for the others by quietly doing what they did not care to do. Her spirit created a new climate in the place, and the time came when there was not one nurse who would refuse to do whatever needed to be done.
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They say I am a regulator and I think it is just an effort not to comply with the decree. I do not do anything except what the decree requires me to do.
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I'm a big believer in what's called personalized medicine, which refers to customizing your health care to your specific needs based on your physiology, genetics, value system and unique conditions.
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One may wonder indeed whether the pretense of superior health is not itself rapidly becoming a mental aberration.
