Rene Dubos Quotes
The mechanisms of vis medicatrix naturæ—the most healing power of nature—are so effective that most diseases are self-terminating.
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If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
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The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.
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Acting is a very big part of what human beings do. A dog is always a dog, but we're always changing.
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I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands.
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If you see a black family, it's looting, but if it's a white family they are looking for food.
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The black community in Hollywood is very small and close-knit. Everyone has a common goal: to make a two-hour movie in 30 days.
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I really feel that political will is born out of popular will.
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Species conversation is beyond a doubt an issue that truly matters to the American public.
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What I have done in my nine year career was just a glimpse of what I can do.
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When I'm writing a movie, it's usually pretty close to what the movie is going to be, which is just a luxury of being a writer-director.
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Every label thinks, when they sign someone, 'This is the perfect pedigree to sign. They're cute, they can sing, they can dance, et cetera.' And they say to the public, 'Here, this is what you're gonna like.' But you might say, 'No, I don't like that!' You'll probably say 'no' many more times than you'll say 'yes!'
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I used to watch Oprah Winfrey, and whenever she used to lose weight, I used to be like, 'How's she losing it? What is she doing?' But it's all about education and knowledge, feeding yourself and knowing that too much carbs is what gets us fat.
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Every time we revise our history, we also revise the mythology of our history.
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I want to work with my friends because Canadian genre publishing is a really small pool.
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I think Bill Finn's one of the geniuses of theatre, and James Lapine's one of the diamonds of my generation. The two together are a joy!
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I like to think of myself as an unmediated novelist - or perhaps a national novelist.
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While I was obsessed with my own misery, there were other things occurring in the human universe.
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Circumcision in the United States is routinely performed without anesthesia, though anesthesia reduces the infant's stress and prevents infection and blood clots.
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In a world built on violence, one must be a revolutionary before one can be a pacifist.
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My ideal office wouldn't have a chair. You would do two things there: stand up or lie down. These are the body's most natural positions.
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From 1991 to 2000, I was totally nomadic. I was travelling 300 days a year and building out my research. These were a bit like my learning and migrating years, so to say.
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God has given to every one of us more than fourteen billion cells and connections in our brain. Now why would God give us such a complex organ system unless He expects us to use it?
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A poet or prose narrator usually looks back on what he has achieved against a backdrop of the years that have passed, generally finding that some of these achievements are acceptable, while others are less so.
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The mechanisms of vis medicatrix naturæ—the most healing power of nature—are so effective that most diseases are self-terminating.
