Eric Lander Quotes
The more species we look at, the more, frankly, we find that humans are not exceptional here.
Quotes to Explore
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The essence of a general's job is to assist in developing a clear sense of purpose to keep the junk from getting in the way of important things.
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The question of whether or to what extent human activities are causing global warming is not a matter of ideology, let alone of belief. The issue is simply one of risk management.
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Everything does go in a circle.
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The more wakeful a man is to the things which surround him, the more asleep is he, and his waking is worse than his sleep.
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We need to ensure that our voice is heard in the process because obviously we do have different views and we can't always accept fait d' accompli positions when they clearly don't reflect the view of our constituents.
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Work my hands in the soil, what's the pay for all the toil? Dust for blood, dust for blood, dust for blood.
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Squeezing the lives of people is now being proposed as the saviour of the planet. Through the green economy an attempt is being made to technologise, financialise, privatise and commodify all of the earth’s resources and living processes.
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I don’t think I would ever have been able to be an actress had I not started at nine years old. I would have been the last person to stand up and say, ‘I’d like to star in the play.’
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I'm very artistic - I feel like ever since I was born I've been drawing. I actually have a picture in my room that I painted, and people are always like "Where did you buy that?" It's cool that people are impressed by it.
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I'd think,'In a relationship, we should never have his kind of fight.' Then, instead of figuring out how to make it work, I looked for a way to get out of it. The truth is, you shouldn't be married if your that kind of person.
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Decide that you will not try to do everything at once. That is why time is spread out.
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Awareness about heart disease has got to be raised.
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Some things are in our control and others not. Things in our control are opinion, pursuit, desire, aversion, and, in a word, whatever are our own actions. Things not in our control are body, property, reputation, command, and, in one word, whatever are not our own actions.
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Only as an aesthetic product can the world be justified to all eternity.
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In the last hour, I have been offered immortality eight thousand times, the ship says. I hate negotiating with vasilevs.
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I have learned so much more about Islam in conversation with Jews and Christians and Hindus. I feel like that is part of the beauty of life on Earth - that we discover and develop what it means to be Muslim or Christian or Jewish not in isolation from others, but precisely in relationship with others.
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The more species we look at, the more, frankly, we find that humans are not exceptional here.
