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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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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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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Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
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I want to talk about jobs, the economy, foreclosures. I want to talk about energy prices.
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Art challenges technology, but technology inspires the art.
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As an athlete, my health has always been important to me.
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We gazed dreamily at the Milky Way and once in a while caught some shooting stars. Times like those gave me the opportunity to wonder and ask all those very basic questions. That sense of awe for the heavens started there.
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Some wonder whether some day we will arrive at a theory of everything and run out of new problems to solve - much as the effort to explore the earth ran out of new continents to explore.
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The bad things are that our financing of health care is really a moral morass. It is a moral morass in the sense that it signals to the doctors and hospitals that human beings have different values depending on their income status.
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One may wonder indeed whether the pretense of superior health is not itself rapidly becoming a mental aberration.
