Elizabeth Kolbert Quotes
I did not mean to suggest that autism could be traced to Neanderthal genes. The point is that some genes that have been implicated in autism changed pretty significantly between the time Neanderthal line and human line split.
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I joined the Actors Studio and began to work with Lee Strasberg, and that changed my work.
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It is the ability to choose which makes us human.
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As far as I am concerned, LGBT can only stand for leprosy, gonorrhea, bacteria, and tuberculosis, all of which are detrimental to human existence.
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If you're human, you've had phases in your life when things are in flux.
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The human juggernaut is permanently eroding Earth's ancient biosphere.
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None can be more negative in its impact than the limitation on human resource capacity.
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This world was not created piecemeal. Africa was born no later and no earlier than any other geographical area on this globe. Africans, no more and no less than other men, possess all human attributes, talents and deficiencies, virtues and faults.
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I don't think Osama is a Muslim. I don't think Osama is a human being.
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Our lives and our culture have been significantly changed and improved by hardware, software, and services developed by immigrants.
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You are enough, which I believe is critical for any human being to get in their bones.
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The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish.
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I remember when I met my wife and that she could just grab my hand and I would just ease. I don't know how to say that but it was one of the coolest things. It was strange, but it definitely changed my life.
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There can be a fundamental gulf of gracelessness in a human heart which neither our love nor our courage can bridge.
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One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.
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I try to stay a civilian, to live as a human, not as a poet.
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Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.
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I remember the first time I saw the stars. I thought they changed everything. I thought they changed me, like I'd become a different person just by seeing shining specks of light a million miles away. Now when I stare at them, I feel nothing. I don't believe in them anymore.
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Why is it that we don't build human settlements that will feed themselves, and fuel themselves, and catch their own water, when any human settlement could do that easily? When it's a trivial thing to do?
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We had some guys that were playing their first game. There's a transition period and we just have to get used to the new application. You have to think out there because as soon as you get your stick up or get your arm out you're going to be sitting in the (penalty) box. It's easy to talk about and it's easy to watch it on video but once you're on the ice, you only get a split second to think about it.
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All's the government should do is keep the taxes and regulations at a manageable rate, keep a decent standing army and get out of the way.
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The identification of the genes which determine biological phenomena and the study of the control they exert on these phenomena has proven to be the most successful approach to a detailed understanding of the mechanism of biological processes.
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I did not mean to suggest that autism could be traced to Neanderthal genes. The point is that some genes that have been implicated in autism changed pretty significantly between the time Neanderthal line and human line split.
