Carl Woese Quotes
The incredible diversity oflife on this planet, most of which is microbial, can only beunderstood in an evolutionary framework
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I come from a poor family, I have seen poverty. The poor need respect, and it begins with cleanliness.
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I knew what normalcy was, and I wasn't having it.
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Male athletes don't get dropped when they father kids.
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Small businesses want things streamlined, and one of the great successes we're having is less paperwork, faster turnaround times.
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Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
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I don't happen to approve of plastic surgery. I think God put plastic surgeons on this earth for good reasons - people get burned or people might have a nose like Pinocchio and that has to be fixed. But to just chop yourself up to look a few years younger? You could come out looking like a Picasso picture.
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I'll never live to write all the stories I have in my head.
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It's interesting sometimes when an audience can empathize with a villain.
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Hell is paved with good intentions.
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It is man's own fault, it is from want of use, if his mind grows torpid in old age.
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Even atheists rebel and express, like Hardy and Housman, their rage against God although (or because) He does not, on their view, exist...
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The instructor said, Go home and write a page tonight. And let that page come out of you - Then, it will be true.
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«We have to manufacture machines that allow us to continue manufacturing machines, because what machines will never do is to manufacture machines in turn.»
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What I feel is that true creation happens when you're making something out of nothing - like it's divine, you know. Creation is a completely divine concept.
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Life is really hard for some people.
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If you're a scientist, and you have to have an answer, even in the absence of data, you're not going to be a good scientist.
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The Steps to Folly as well as Sin are gradual, and almost imperceptible, and when we are once on the Decline, we go down without taking notice on't.
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I love pop music, but I feel like the genre is overpopulated - there was so much bubblegum for a while, but I feel like Sam Smith and Ed Sheeran are bringing good, real music back to the radio.
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The longer I look at something, the more my imagination churns and I can find somewhere to put it.
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It's just like heirloom tomatoes; this is heirloom music. We used to have all kinds of diversity in our poultry, in our vegetables, in our fruits, and slowly but surely the monoculture beast comes in. I'm saying that's not a good idea. And if it means that I gotta do it on my own, then I do it on my own.
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Remorse is a violent dyspepsia of the mind.
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I don't trust politicians. I think that by the time they've made it, with the concessions they've had to make in that position, I don't believe they still have the beliefs they had at the root.
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The basic proposal of the new education is to be that dunces and idlers must not be made to feel inferior to intelligent and industrious pupils. That would be 'undemocratic.
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The incredible diversity oflife on this planet, most of which is microbial, can only beunderstood in an evolutionary framework
