Rene Dubos Quotes
Each civilization has its own kind of pestilence and can control it only by reforming itself.
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The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.
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Widely distributed reports have noted in January 1968, Obama was registered as a Muslim at Jakarta's Roman Catholic Franciscus Assisi Primary School under the name Barry Soetoro.
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All the things that happen to people in the industry today, the actors, what they have to put up with, all the people wanting to know every single moment of their lives - I think it's really sad.
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I've been lucky enough to have fulfilled so many ambitions, and gone way past anything I ever thought I would do. I could never have imagined the career that I've had with the Foo Fighters - playing stadiums and having songs on the radio. It's amazing, and my goal is really just to carry on playing.
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It does seem to produce more creative results when there are limitations. It's like in wartime with rations - people became more inventive with cooking.
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But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.
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Companies that have strong graphic identities have built them through years of use.
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The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
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It's good to play 100 per cent live - no tricks, no samples, no messing about.
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I have never gotten my nails done.
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The West Indians and Pakistanis play one-day cricket so well because they play for English counties.
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Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
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She Venison had never travelled and so could invent all kinds of strange places without being limited, as travelled people are, by knowledge of certain places only.
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Art is thought, and thought only gives the world an appearance of order to anyone weak enough to be convinced by its show.
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Whether in my book or not, every man is tabernacled in every other and he in exchange and so on in an endless complexity of being and witness to the uttermost edge of the world.
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Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.
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Members of Congress wear two hats: one as Washington legislator, the other as listener and community leader back home.
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You don't know whether he's thought through how this is going to affect the Middle East.
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As soon as I could ride a bike... I was always riding over to the Museum of Science and Industry to explore. It's where I first began to develop a fascination with machines and scientific principles.
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As we come to grips with our own selfishness and stupidity, we make friends with the impostor and accept that we are impoverished and broken and realize that, if we were not, we would be God. The art of gentleness toward ourselves leads to being gentle with others -- and is a natural prerequisite for our presence to God in prayer.
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You have to take control of your own life, your own destiny, and your own careers. You can't leave everything up to someone else, 'cause then you can look at them and blame them.
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Each civilization has its own kind of pestilence and can control it only by reforming itself.
