Nicolas Steno Quotes
There are those among us who would have us say that the mysteries of the brain are completely solved and little needs to be added to its knowledge. It is as if these fortunate persons had been present when this magnificent organ was created.
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Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.
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The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say.
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I worked from 12 to 17, six years in a bakery. I was a pastry cook.
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When you seek the presence of your creative Spirit and are filled with passion about virtually everything you undertake, you'll successfully remove the roadblocks from your life and enjoy the active presence of Spirit.
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The twentieth century had produced a literature in Ireland that kept a tense distance from the sources of faith - and for good reason. Irish writing had suffered a terrible censorship in the twentieth century.
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As a kid, I would push my shoulders forward in order to hide my heart from being hurt.
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That's a big deal for kids, when they come into the kitchen and the teacher is drinking coffee with mom. They react differently on the next day when you say: 'Sit down and shut-up!'
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I try to look at people like Adele and Norah Jones, who are very successful but don't have to deal with scandals.
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Our judgment and moral categories, our idea of the future, our opinions about the present or about justice, peace, or war, everything, without excluding our rejections of Marxism, is impregnated with Marxism.
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I used to spend a lot of time alone as a kid, creating characters and doing voices in my room, and I thought to myself, I'm either going to go absolutely nuts, or I'm going to find something to put that energy into.
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Age-class running, as you know, is completely unreliable. It's based on this artificial thing, which is that people who are the same age have the same level of physical maturity. Which just isn't true.
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History is much more the product of chaos than of conspiracy.
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Segregation was wrong when it was forced by white people, and I believe it is still wrong when it is requested by black people.
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Not everything is going to be successful. To strive for that is really naive. You just do the best you can do.
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Start-ups should be hunch-driven early on and data-driven as they scale.
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I always feel like hard work leads the way, and from there, I leave it up to the powers that be.
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I don't think that you can write music if you don't know how to play an instrument. You have to know the basics, then you can go forward.
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I have been interested in beauty from an early age. My sister used to put face masks on me and do me up with my mother's makeup!
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The 'Remnants' EP was the first time I got to really explore myself as a producer, and I got the insane idea of doing it on my own in my future career.
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After writing each novel, I would spend days poring over suggestions from my editor.
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I feel more content with what I wear. I always feel confident. I shop for my age and my body.
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But if we ask where precisely in the brain that point of view is located, the simple assumptions that work so well on larger scales of space and time break down. It is now quite clear that there is no single point in the brain where all information funnels in, and this fact has some far from obvious consequences.
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If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain.
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There are those among us who would have us say that the mysteries of the brain are completely solved and little needs to be added to its knowledge. It is as if these fortunate persons had been present when this magnificent organ was created.
