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• We recognized in 1996 that, with progress in the field of genetics accelerating at a breathtaking pace, we need to ensure that advances in treatment and prevention of disease do not constitute a new basis for discrimination.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Progress
  • Discrimination

• I've always been interested in the history of the West, our country and particularly as it relates to the Native Americans - the original Americans.

  

  Beau Bridges
  • Country
  • History
  • Original

• If you want to get along, go along.

  

  Sam Rayburn
  • Want
  • You
  • Go

• You've got certain guys that just want to be famous and then you've got the real musicians that just love playing music.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Music
  • Real
  • Love

• Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Art
  • Nature
  • Science

• My background is degradation and sloth, mostly.

  

  Larry David
  • Background
  • Sloth
  • Mostly

• In the midst of the heartbreak and wreckage of 9-11, the world also witnessed what is America's greatest strength. Firefighters, nurses, police officers, first responders and local residents worked around the clock to rescue and care for those injured.

  

  Dan Coats
  • World
  • America
  • Police

• Britain, relative to the U.S., is a highly secular society. Philanthropy alone cannot fill the gap left by government cutbacks. And the sources of altruism go deep into our evolutionary past.

  

  Jonathan Sacks
  • Society
  • Past
  • Alone

• Home may be where the heart is but it's no place to spend Wednesday afternoon.

  

  Walker Percy
  • Heart
  • May
  • Home

• Pleasure unparalleled, into the ocean of love we fell. Swimming in the timeless currents of pure bliss, fantasies interchanging with every kiss.

  

  LL Cool J
  • Romantic
  • Ocean
  • Kiss

• The time to make up your mind about people is never.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Behind every successful person, stands a very successful mother-in-law.

  

  Lou Holtz
  • Mother
  • Law
  • Successful

• Hey, guess what? Turns out the free market? Not so free. Wall Street was hit hard Monday when Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy, Merrill Lynch was sold to Bank of America, and insurance giant AIG neared a collapse of its own. Basically, if your commercials air during golf tournaments, you're done.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Done
  • America
  • Free

• I feel things more deeply... anything to do with kids. It just makes a big difference in my life... Having a child is like taking the deepest core vulnerable aspect of myself, reaching in and taking it outside of my body.

  

  Ben Affleck
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Aspect

• Everything hurt. I closed my eyes, pressing my cheek to the street, and waited. What for, I didn't know. To be rescued. Or found. But no one came. All I'd ever thought I wanted was to be left alone. Until I was.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Hurt
  • Wanted
  • Found

• If you put enough smart people together in one space, good things happen.

  

  Erik Hersman
  • People
  • Together
  • Happen

• Nocebos often cause a physical effect, but it's not a physically produced effect. What's the cause? In many cases, it's an unanswered question.

  

  Irving Kirsch
  • Question
  • Effect
  • Often

• Every effect that one produces gives one an enemy. To be popular one must be a mediocrity.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Enemy
  • Popular
  • Effect

• The cause is hidden; the effect is visible to all.

  

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