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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Let us together create the new building of the future, which will be everything in one form: architecture and sculpture and painting.
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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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If someone thinks I'm a dickhead, fine, listen to someone else's record, then. We're not a totalitarian regime; no one's forced to listen to Coldplay. It's actually quite a compliment if you're something that people can stand against.
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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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Emancipation came to the colored race in America as a war measure. It was an act of military necessity. Manifestly it would have come without war, in the slower process of humanitarian reform and social enlightenment.
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The process of empowerment cannot be simplistically defined in accordance with our own particular class interests. We must learn to lift as we climb.
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GIS is being influenced by and integrating with all kinds of new innovations such as faster computing, big data, the cloud, smart devices, and distributed processing.
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There may be no less original idea than the notion that our hearts hold dominion over our heads.
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When I'm off the golf course, I feel the pressure, but I try to concentrate on the golf course.
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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
