Gary Marcus Quotes
“Because genes work in combination, the incremental effect of adding a new gene to a genome may be not linear, but exponential.”
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Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.
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Always, if you win mentally, you can win physically as well.
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I think more and more people these days go for the safe option in film making.
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Among the questions we have in mind: dark matter, antimatter, and matter symmetry.
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A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.
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We shot ten minutes of the movie, and now we're looking for completion funds.
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Being able to communicate with a loved one that you haven't talked to in a while because of some communication break makes their life and your life in a much better place.
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I think we realized what was at stake.
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Don't get so involved in the duties of your life and your children that you forget the pleasure. Remember why you had children.
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I don't fear death, it must be like a long sleep.
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We aren't playing defense and we aren't rebounding the basketball. This has gotten off to a bad start, but we have to find a way to turn it around.
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Only the incompetent wait until the last extremity to use force, and by then, it is usually too late to use anything, even prayer.
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As a team the increased fuel costs, naturally, affect your budget. Figure this: the transporter that we run gets about 6 1/2 to 7 miles per gallon at best, 4 1/2 at worst. Obviously, the increased fuel cost makes a considerable difference, especially with all of these trips we're making to the West Coast now.
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It is my view that Richard Clarke's testimony before the joint inquiry will shed light on the issues without compromising national security.
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We have to make the first move ourselves rather than expecting it to come from the phenomenal world or from other people. If we are meditating at home and we happen to live in the middle of the High Street, we cannot stop the traffic just because we want peace and quiet. But we can stop ourselves, we can accept the noise. The noise also contains silence. We must put ourselves into it and expect nothing from outside, just as Buddha did. And we must accept whatever situation arises.
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I see, indeed I know, that in some sense God is love, and God is wisdom, and God is creative action, yes and God is beauty; but what God actually is, whether the maker of all things, or the fragrance of all things, or just a dream in our own hearts, I have not the art to know. Neither have you, I believe; nor any man, nor any spirit of our humble stature.
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If someone sees me with what looks like a beer, it's always zero per cent.
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By merely foreswearing violence and taking advantage of their unique position contiguous with the world’s most creative people, the Palestinians could be rich and happy.
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Fury said to a mousethat he met in the houselet us both go to law; I will prosecute youlet there be no denial; come, we must have a trialfor really, this morning, I've nothing to dosuch a trial, dear sir, said the mouse to the curwithout jury or judge would be wasting our breathI'll be judge, I'll be jurysaid cunning old furyI'll try the whole cause and condemn youto death.
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“Because genes work in combination, the incremental effect of adding a new gene to a genome may be not linear, but exponential.”
