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Trying to defend religion by invoking science is like claiming that three plus four equals ice cream.

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• Happy indeed is the scientist who not only has the pleasures which I have enumerated, but who also wins the recognition of fellow scientists and of the mankind which ultimately benefits from his endeavors.

  

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• One drawing demands to become a painting, so I start to work on that, and then the painting might demand something else. Then the painting might say, 'I want a companion, and the companion should be like this,' so I have to find that, either by drawing it myself or locating the image.

  

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• We may define therapy as a search for value.

  

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• I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.

  

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• I am not from a film family or a Mumbai girl. The probability of getting a second chance is low, and so one has to be more careful.

  

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• I finished the recordings I had started with Eleven. Matt Cameron joined for the rest of those sessions.

  

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• One is that you have to take time, lots of time, to let an idea grow from within. The second is that when you sign on to something, there will be issues of trust, deep trust, the way the members of a string quartet have to trust one another.

  

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• He plants trees to benefit another generation.

  

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• In my opinion turkey is the most over-rated critter for eating purposes in kingdom come but the most striking example we have of the power of propaganda.

  

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• Trying to defend religion by invoking science is like claiming that three plus four equals ice cream.

  

  Decca Aitkenhead
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