Robert Winston Quotes

One of the most important aspects of what makes us who we are is neither straight genes or straight environment but actually what happens to us during development.

Robert Winston

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When the Obama administration announced its 'reset' of relations with Russia in 2009, Americans never expected that it would include making Vladimir Putin the de facto U.S. ambassador to Syria in 2013.

John Barrasso

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Realistic novels simply pretend that the rules of their invented worlds are identical to the rules of actual life, but that's a ruse.

John Crowley

LifeRulesRealisticPretendSimply

Thimerosal is a mercury-based preservative that was in many American vaccines until 2003. It was removed from many of the pediatric vaccines, but it was put in the flu vaccine, which is now given to 53 million Americans.

Robert Kennedy, Jr.

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A cello can sound like so many instruments, but it's only one, you know, like a guitar; it has percussive qualities. It can sing like the violin, you know, like a voice.

Luka Sulic

VoiceGuitarYouKnowSoundViolin

To continue living, we have to die. That's the story of humanity - generation after generation - that we are going to die. There's nothing dramatic about death except that one loses one's life.

Jose Saramago

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I think it's important to take chances.

David Sedaris

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Our social mores no longer conform to a world where nice girls wear skirts that don't cling.

Christina Binkley

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History's lesson is to make the most of reform opportunities when they arise because they do not arise often and they do not last long.

Christopher Bond

HistoryOpportunitiesLongLesson

While I've had plenty of ups and downs, dealt with my share of failure, and struggled through emotionally difficult periods, I'm fundamentally an optimist.

Brad Feld

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It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.

Brooks Atkinson

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I feel we are all islands - in a common sea.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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I'd like to go back to poetry again. I really, really revere good poetry. It's been my private discipline.

Alice Sebold

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