Rebecca Skloot Quotes
Only cells that had been transformed by a virus or a genetic mutation had the potential to become immortal.
Rebecca Skloot
Quotes to Explore
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I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it comes upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive. At such moments there is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!.
William James
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The leader is a teacher who succeeds without taking credit. And, because credit is not taken, credit is received.
Lao Tzu
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Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.
William Arthur Ward
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Let's leave no words unspoken and save regrets for the broken.
Jeremy McKinnon
A Day to Remember
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Drawing is a means of obtaining and communicating knowledge.
John Ruskin
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I have been feeding pigeons, thousands of them for years. But there was one, a beautiful bird, pure white with light grey tips on its wings; that one was different. It was a female. I had only to wish and call her and she would come flying to me. I loved that pigeon as a man loves a women, and she loved me. As long as I had her, there was a purpose to my life.
Nikola Tesla
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Don't trust the heart, it wants your blood.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
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A heart so pure it was nothing but storm.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
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She is one of God's women fashioned by His own hand to show us men and other women that there is a heaven where we can enter, and that its light can be here on earth.
Bram Stoker
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It is the artist's function not to copy but to synthesise: to eliminate from that gross confusion of actuality which is his raw material whatever is accidental, idle, irrelevant, and select for perpetuation that only which is appropriate and immortal.
William Ernest Henley
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This is my firm persuasion, that since the human soul exerts itself with so great activity, since it has such a remembrance of the best, such a concern for the future, since it is enriched with so many arts, sciences, and discoveries, it is impossible but the being which contains all these must be immortal.
Cato the Younger
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Only cells that had been transformed by a virus or a genetic mutation had the potential to become immortal.
Rebecca Skloot