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Not enough books focus on how a culture responds to radically new ideas or discovery. Especially in the biography genre, they tend to focus on all the sordid details in the life of the person who made the discovery. I find this path to be voyeuristic but not enlightening. Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Whether in print or other media, a good biography is more than a court record or a stringing together of already familiar sources. It breathes life into the subject. Noel Riley Fitch
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Whenever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography, history, or science, it is killed. The living images become only remote facts of a distant time or place. Furthermore, it is never difficult to demonstrate that as science and history, mythology is absurd. Joseph Campbell
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A biography is like a handshake down the years, that can become an arm-wrestle.
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They don't pile up too much oxygen, carbon dioxide, nitrate or phosphate. Those are kept under some kind of biological control. That's how the past has been. The big issue is, will the future work that way?
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It wasn't until (Dew) wrote the biography that we really found out a lot about what he had been doing. We just never felt that what he was doing was particularly difficult or meaningful. We were just normal.
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The support for Gore comes much more quickly and much more easily once voters get a sense of who he is. Until they understand something about his motivation and his biography and his background, it is difficult for voters to get a handle on him outside of the image of a vice president. Tad Devine
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The songs will tell a story that I have imagined existing between the lines of Andersen's biography and some of his most famous tales, ... They speak of a misfit's love for an unattainable woman and a struggle between a huckster and someone who composes music in secret. Elvis Costello
biography nature
Presidential biography is, by its nature, out of scale; no character is bigger, no action greater, than the person and the doings of the American president.
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There are certain artworks that I respond to, artists that I respond to. It's an intellectual reaction but it's also a biological reaction. And the excitement that the work can generate - how it makes you feel about not only your intellectual possibilities but your physical possibilities in this world. How it feels to be alive! Jeff Koons
biological nutrients studied system work
Nutrients are not drugs and they can't be studied as drugs. They are part of a biological system where all nutrients work as a team to support your biochemical processes.
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We're gearing up for Planning (Commission) now, ... We're doing a traffic study, a noise study and a biological study.
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They must have been close to something on whether on whether biological or chemical weapons were used on prisoners,
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This discovery sheds new light on the biological causes of the disease. Importantly, virtually all of this risk can be captured by looking at a single-letter change in DNA -- ideal for the development of a genetic test for assessing individual risk and developing more personalized and effective prevention strategies.
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This discovery sheds new light on the biological causes of the disease.
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It's very difficult to guess a biological weapons threat because of the huge number of genetic variations possible. Jonathan Tucker
biological confirm difference measures people
It's not just a difference in how people characterize their own health. The biological measures confirm there is a difference. James Smith
biological cell hereditary
The nucleic acids have considerable biological importance because of their role in cell growth and in the transmission of hereditary characters.
carbon-emissions black lines
The black line is carbon emissions to date. The red line is the status quo - a projection of where emissions will go if no new substantial policy is passed to restrain greenhouse gas emissions. David Roberts
carbon-footprint goal planets
My goal is to leave this planet with the biggest carbon footprint I can possibly leave. Denis Leary
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We are already witnessing a transformation in the U.S. economy to increased production of lower carbon energy through fuel switching to natural gas and expansion of wind, solar, geothermal, and other renewable non-carbon intensive energy sources. Martin O'Malley
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Man - life in general - seems irrelevant to the workings of the universe: a mere smudge of water, grease, and carbon on a pinpoint planet circling a star of no special consequence. Leonard Susskind
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All of forms of power generation create carbon. Some sort of carbon sequestration is the most likely intermediate-term carbon solution.
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Americans are worried about pollution - oil trains running through their towns, fracking in their neighborhoods, coal dust in their air. They're worried about what the future will look like for their children if carbon pollution continues unchecked.
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They plan to use state-of-the-art boiler technology and activated carbon injection. Cleaner plants will come on line in the future as the technology advances. But right now, what SME is planning is just about as good as it gets.
carbon influence major model stored
There's a lot of carbon stored in the soil. If the permafrost does thaw, as our model predicts, it could have a major influence on climate. David Lawrence
carbon deal staying uses
It's a really big deal to do a spacewalk. It's much riskier than staying indoors. It's complex. It uses up a lot of the precious resources onboard. It uses up oxygen. It uses up carbon dioxide scrubbers. Chris Hadfield
future live-in-the-moment one-day
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time. The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time. Dean Acheson
future people
The people who were low-level Baathists need to know they have a part in the future of their country, John Abizaid
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When you think something has to be done ... you have to do it. It was not proper to let him keep doing what he was doing -- signing players, making plans for the future -- when we knew that at the end of the year we were going to relieve him of his job. Harry Sinden
future lake protect
We want to protect the lake in the future and for our children.
future good job
We want job opportunities and a good life, a good future for our children,
future incredibly people whether
Whether people like it or not, China is incredibly important to the future of mankind. For me, this is something that we all need to have intelligent discussions about in America, in Britain, in Europe. Damon Albarn
future investing meet present
We're investing to meet present and future needs.
future remains team wish
it remains her wish to have Bankhead become a part of the UW team in the future. Lisa Stone
future legacies pass
Nuclear disarmament is one of the greatest legacies we can pass on to future generations. Ban Ki-moon
issues gold persuasion
An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions. They seem to sense... that gold and economic freedom are inseparable. Alan Greenspan
issues people giving
People who give money in large amount in politics are basically not altruistic.They have some issue. They have some interest.It may be preserving carried interest. But it's not altruistic. David Brooks
issues economic-models solve
No one can solve an issue where there is no economic model yet. Barry Diller
issues spheres moral
The issue is not that morals be applied to public policy, it's that conservatives bring public policy to spheres of our lives where it should not enter. Barney Frank
issues giving people
Most people who are activists and are concerned about issues get their information from sources which reinforce their opinions and give them the facts that they want to hear.
issue ongoing quickly regional
The ongoing dispute over the relocation of U.S. Marines on Okinawa should be quickly settled. This isn't just an issue for the U.S. and Japan. It has regional implications. Ed Royce
issue itself work
We still see this as kind of a short-term issue that will work itself out. Kevin Hall
issues government challenges
My government has the challenge of addressing the issue of gas. The issue of gas cannot be addressed today without the participation of all Bolivians alike. Carlos Mesa
issue solved zealand
We have never said more than we have said in the case. This issue has been solved in a satisfactory way with the New Zealand government. Mark Regev
kept stop
The most disappointing thing is that we can't stop the bleeding. They kept scoring. We couldn't stop them.
kept promised
They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they kept only one; they promised to take our land, and they did. Red Cloud
kept played
They played well. (Corbin) Donaldson was tough. We kept getting it down to 2 and 4 and we couldn't get over the hump.
kept rid rock sex
They got rid of the sex and drugs but kept the rock 'n' roll.
kept rhythm trying
They got us out of what we were trying to do and kept us from getting any kind of rhythm going. Chris Mooney
kept knowing passes tried
They tried to take away the penetration at first. We kept going in and making the passes knowing something had to give.
kept kids physical run
They're a big, physical team, and they just kept coming. Their kids run hard.
kept likely spectators visitors
For all the splendours of the world's greatest galleries, visitors are likely to be kept at arm's length, spectators of a world that can seem too rarefied to let them in. Jim Crace
kept looked love moment suddenly waving
For a moment I thought he would faint. But then he suddenly looked at me and said 'I love these people' and I said 'Are you okay?' He said 'I am okay' and kept waving to his fans. Uri Geller
past influence vain
It's in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present. Charles Dickens
past political reform
Reform is a good replete with paradox; it is a cathartic which our political quacks, like our medical, recommend to others, but will not take themselves; it is admired by all who cannot effect it, and abused by all who can; it is thought pregnant with danger, for all time that is present, but would have been extremely profitable for that which is past, and will be highly salutary for that which is to come. Charles Caleb Colton
past men miracle
There are truths which some men despise because they have not examined, and which they will not examine because they despise. There is one signal instance on record where this kind of prejudice was overcome by a miracle; but the age of miracles is past, while that of prejudice remains.
past water people
"People can't die, along the coast," said Mr. Peggotty, "except when the tide's pretty nigh out. They can't be born, unless it's pretty nigh in - not properly born, till flood. He's a going out with the tide. It's ebb at half-arter three, slack water half an hour. If he lives till it turns, he'll hold his own till past the flood, and go out with the next tide."
past years tvs
My favourite movie is: "Dr Strangelove". (I haven't seen any films released in the past 2-5 years, I'm afraid: I don't do TV/cinema). Charles Stross
past giving video
Society, magazines, posters, music videos, investment bankers. A lot of times, in my past anyway, looking within wasn't overly encouraged. Pretty much everybody proclaimed that fame would give me power and fortune. Alanis Morissette
past dangerous-situations risk
The world is in an extremely dangerous situation, and serious diseases often require the risk of a dangerous cure like the Pasteur serum for rabies. Alan Watts
past games matter
If you insist on being determined by the past that's your game, but the fact of the matter is it all starts right now.
past listening life-is-like
Life is like music for its own sake. We are living in an eternal now, and when we listen to music we are not listening to the past, we are not listening to the future, we are listening to an expanded present.
pile
It's a pile of rubble now. It's down and gone.
piles
There's a lot of it still on the table. Big piles of it. John Schuerholz
piles plan until yesterday
We did 18 piles yesterday and will keep going today. We plan to be there until Friday.
pile sitting toyota
Toyota is sitting on a pile of money.
pile spread
In my library/study/barn, there is a Ping-Pong table on which I can pile working books and spread maps. Antony Beevor
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Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable human activity, and that wherever it is so applied it lends an unmistakable quality to the work.
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You've got to get good habits of working hard so that when that play comes up during the regular season that you're able to complete it and do it the right way. Al Kaline
work office employment
I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe holding public office.
work may helping
Though top executives may work as hard as ever-in part perhaps because, being trained in an earlier day, they can hardly help doing so-their subordinates are somewhat less work-minded. David Riesman
work artist class
The closest thing we have to the traditional ideology of the leisure class is a group of artists and intellectuals who regard their work as play and their play as work.
work trying stuff
I've just been working hard, trying to get some good stuff to come out. David Duval
workout fun powerful
When your vision is powerful enough, everything else falls into place: how you live your life, your workouts, what friends you choose to hang out with, how you eat, what you do for fun. Vision is purpose, and when your purpose is clear, so are your life choices. Vision creates faith and faith creates willpower. With faith, there is no anxiety, no doubt - just absolute confidence. Arnold Schwarzenegger
workout gone regimes
I've gone on workout regimes, but I seem to have a system that is very resistant to changing. Ben Whishaw
work-ethic ethics talent
I never met a winner who had a work ethic. Not somebody who says I have so much talent that naturally I won. Arnold Palmer