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John Eccles Quotes

How we come to be, and how we are what we are, is beyond any understanding. I have been obsessed by this, trying to understand the very nature of my existence.

John Eccles

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: australian
Birth: January 27, 1903 - May 2, 1997

Topics

Nature Understanding Trying Beyond

We entered Gettysburg in the afternoon, just in time to meet the enemy entering the town, and in good season to drive him back before his getting a foothold.

John Buford

Good Time Drive Back Enemy Meet

Stripe is building payment infrastructure for the Web, so we make it easy to accept credit cards online. Before Stripe, the way you'd do this is using the legacy banking structure. It was slow, it was complex, it was expensive. It had this very chilling effect on e-commerce.

John Collison

Building Legacy Slow Credit You Way

If you don't have money or you come from a background that doesn't have money, it's harder to achieve your ambition in life. It's not that you can't, but it becomes harder. Inequality is one of the worst things that can exist in our society, so I am interested in those kind of things.

Andrew Haigh

Life Money I Am Ambition Society

Maybe the example of Southern fiction writing has been so powerful that Southern poets have sort of keyed themselves to that.

Robert Morgan

Writing Powerful Fiction Example

We're not the States of America; we're the United States of America. If states don't get what they need, we're not going to have a successful plan, period.

Anna Eshoo

America Plan Need Successful Going

You never give away your heart; you lend it from time to time. If it were not so, how could we take it back without asking?

Jeanette Winterson

Heart Time You Back Never Asking

Is the capacity for cruelty inherent in all of us?

Soledad O'Brien

Cruelty Us Capacity Inherent

The cultural conversation around privilege has grown vibrant enough that the ultimate privilege is to just ignore it altogether. Some decry this conversation as pernicious. I don't agree.

Rumaan Alam

Ignore Enough Conversation Privilege

Superstorm Sandy inflicted havoc and heartache throughout the Northeast, hitting the Big Apple and its surrounding coastal towns hard.

Russel Honore

Apple Hard Big Heartache Hitting

It's been interesting. I went through a period where a lot of people would recognize me, and then when I had injures and my ranking dropped, not as many people did.

Mary Pierce

People Me Interesting Through Where

'The Big Lebowski' gave me my first false sense of intellectual superiority.

Josh Gondelman

Me Intellectual First False Big

Placing limits on carbon pollution from power plants is about ensuring that we have clean air to breathe and communities that are safe to live in. Carbon pollution limits are about defending families who have borne the heaviest burden of the main pollutant that is driving climate change.

Donna Brazile

Change Live Power Plants Limits