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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There are many Green Dragons in this world of wayside inns, even as there are many White Harts, Red Lions, Silent Women and other incredible things.
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This is the planet teeming, this place we’ve come to and will leave tomorrow, deepened for the long return but not the wedded reach, the losing touch of self to self, contented more or less and known not nearly well enough.
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A story is how we construct our experiences.
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It's possible to watch 'Gone Girl' and feel that you have seen something terribly bleak. But it's also possible to receive it as good news. Any powerful articulation of the need for change is also a testimony to the possibility of change.
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The incredible diversity oflife on this planet, most of which is microbial, can only beunderstood in an evolutionary framework
