Edmund Beecher Wilson Quotes
Not a single visible phenomenon of celldivision gives even a remote suggestion of qualitative division. All the facts, on the contrary, indicate that the division of the chromatin is carried out with the most exact equality.
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I just feel abstinence is the right thing to do. You don't want to ruin the experience of first sex with your wife, by comparing it to what you've done before.
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The record of a month's roulette playing at Monte Carlo can afford us material for discussing the foundations of knowledge.
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Impotence is one of the major hazards of cigarette smoking.
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It was a promise she knew I might not be able to keep. But I made it anyway because I was going to find a way to make it true.
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I was trained by my husband. He said, If you want a thing done go. If not send. I belong to that group of people who move the piano themselves.
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I hope that people of all faiths will start looking for our too-invisible children who are crying out for help.
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As the bee collecteth honey with great zest, so the fool collecteth wealth.
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I'll tell you what a friendship is to me. Friendship to me is, if my friends need my little finger to live, I'm going to have it cut off. I'm going to the hospital, they cut off my finger, and maybe I have a gold finger instead, and I become famous. But I still give it to my friend.
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What is called posterity is the posterity of the work of art.
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Diversity there certainly is in the world, but it means neither inequality nor untouchability.
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Lords, knights and gentlemen, what I should say My tears gainsay; for every word I speak, Ye see I drink the water of my eye.
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Your birth may be common, But death must be history.
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Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.
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Everybody says I can't act. They said the same thing about Elizabeth Taylor. And they were wrong. She was great in A Place in the Sun. I'll never get the right part, anything I really want. My looks are against me. They're too specific.
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Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
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Fertility of imagination and abundance of guesses at truth are among the first requisites of discovery; but the erroneous guesses must almost of necessity be many times as numerous as those which prove well founded.
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A subject that is beautiful in itself gives no suggestion to the artist. It lacks imperfection.
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Much of the blame for the situation lies with the states themselves. They haven't been able to pass decent laws. For decades, tax authorities have been taking aim at the phenomenon of tax havens, and the most aggravating thing is that they aren't just in Bermuda or on the Cayman Islands, but right outside our front door.
