Christian de Duve Quotes

Due to these various circumstances, when I entered the Catholic University of Louvain in 1934, I had already travelled in a number of European countries and spoke four languages fairly fluently. This turned out to be a valuable asset in my subsequent career as a scientist.

Christian de Duve

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Author Biography

  • Author Profession: scientist
  • Nationality: belgian
  • Birth: October 2, 1917 - May 4, 2013

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Part of the way that I work is to observe.

John Hawkes

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Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe.

John Milton

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My number one thing? Don't overleverage yourself. Don't say you can do something when you really can't.

Matthew McConaughey

YourselfYouSaySomethingOne Thing

Open your mouth and purse cautiously, and your stock of wealth and reputation shall, at least in repute, be great.

John Zimmerman

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What we usually consider as impossible are simply engineering problems... there's no law of physics preventing them.

Michio Kaku

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The problem was with Bill Clinton, the scandals and rumored scandals, the incubating ones and the dying ones never ended. Whatever moral compass the president was consulting was leading him in the wrong direction. His closets were full of skeletons just waiting to burst out.

Louis Freeh

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Here's the truth. Your teens and twenties are your Plan A. At 50, you're assessing whether Plan B or Plan C or any of the other plans you hatched actually worked. Your sixties and seventies, they're an improvisation.

Dick Van Dyke

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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

SuccessAppearanceNothingLike

I don't have any regrets in my life actually. I think that's a pretty good policy.

Brooke Burke

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I am something of a contrarian, I suppose. I feel less comfortable when everybody agrees with me. I say, 'I better reexamine my position!' I probably believe that the worst opinions in my court have been unanimous. Because there's nobody on the other side pointing out all the flaws.

Antonin Scalia

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I'd like to be a queen in people's hearts but I don't see myself being queen of this country.

Princess Diana

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I used to be something of an obsessive when it came to research. When I first began writing the Thorne novels, I would drive to a set of traffic lights in the early hours of the morning to make sure you could turn left. I thought it was important to get even the most trivial details right.

Mark Billingham

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