David Shenk Quotes
Contrary to what we've been taught, genes do not determine physical and character traits on their own. Rather, they interact with the environment in a dynamic, ongoing process that produces and continually refines an individual
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He who fears to weep, should learn to be kind to those who weep.
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Before I had my child, animals were my life. I slept with four dogs in my bed.
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Even if I'm gone all day, breakfast is the one meal I always cook for my kids. I make French toast, oatmeal, or an egg burrito.
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Democrats and Republicans have been very keen to make home ownership almost a national purpose.
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I can go back to Egypt anytime I want. Can I leave Egypt anytime I want? I think I can. I think I can.
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I'm an Oscar nominee. I love saying that. Whatever happens, I'm going to sing that 'I'm an Oscar nominee' part.
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I played didgeridoo from a young age - on the vacuum cleaner, initially.
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I'm doing what I want to do.
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In my time, I experienced a black man not being able to be the quarterback of a football team.
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I'm pretty obsessed with 'The Real Housewives of New Jersey.' I usually watch it on the bus after a show with my husband Jimi. As much as he will deny it, he loves the show as much as I do.
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There's no question that photographs communicate more instantly and powerfully than words do, but if you want to communicate a complex concept clearly, you need words, too.
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By being able to write a genome and plug it into an organism, the software, if you will, changes the hardware.
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A draft doesn't produce the people we need to satisfy our real manpower shortage. We need specialists to keep our jets flying.
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Sin is not simply making bad choices or mistakes. Sin is having the desire in our hearts to do the will of the enemy of God.
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Ice burns, and it is hard to the warm-skinned to distinguish one sensation, fire, from the other, frost.
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Congress had made clear that it has affirmed the principle of keeping banking and commerce separate. This loophole ... circumvents that principle. If Congress wants to revisit banking and commerce, that's their prerogative but it doesn't seem a good approach to allow a loophole in which that distinction breaks down.
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Our means of receiving impressions are absurdly few, and our notions of surrounding objects infinitely narrow. We see things only as we are constructed to see them, and can gain no idea of their absolute nature. With five feeble senses we pretend to comprehend the boundlessly complex cosmos.
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I love being pregnant. You can do whatever you want.
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I believe love to be hurtful to society, and to the individual happiness of men. I believe, in short, that love does more harm than good.
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But I'm not objective when I'm acting.
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My big love was the Beatles. I was more into music.
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Farmers only worry during the growing season, but townspeople worry all the time.
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If I got $300 million from the California Lottery, the first thing I would do is buy the rights to 'Firefly', make it on my own, and distribute it on the Internet.
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Contrary to what we've been taught, genes do not determine physical and character traits on their own. Rather, they interact with the environment in a dynamic, ongoing process that produces and continually refines an individual
