Christian de Duve Quotes

If you want this planet to continue being habitable for everyone that lives here, you have to limit the number of inhabitants. Hunters do it by killing off the old or sick animals in a herd, but I don't think that's a very ethical way of limiting the population.

Christian de Duve

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Grassroots organizing tends to be most available to big campaigns, but it's actually most useful to small ones. You can't win a presidential campaign without going on TV, but you can win a local election simply by organizing your community. NationBuilder levels the playing field.

Joe Green

CommunityWinSmallYouElection

I went to an all-boys school and hated feeling like one of the crowd.

Jeremy Irvine

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Whitney Houston's voice was the very first voice I fell in love with. She was the voice that made me want to become a singer.

Melanie Fiona

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The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.

Robert Green Ingersoll

ManCivilizationTrueRightWhere

Coming through the fire and through the storm of life with a strong man, my fiance Ashanti, whom I've been dating for eight months and two wonderful children beside me, I'm just so happy that I have been able to maintain my integrity and get to where I am today with the right energy around me.

Angie Stone

LifeIntegrityTodayChildrenFire

Obscenities... I think a lot of dumb people do it because they can't think of what they want to say and they're frustrated. A lot of smart people do it to pretend they aren't very smart - want to be just one of the boys.

Andy Rooney

SmartPeopleThinkDumbSayWant

As an adult, I'll give a writer 50 pages. If the book doesn't interest me in 50 pages, I'll say the heck with it - there are just too many other things to read. A child won't give you 50 pages.

Sid Fleischman

ChildMeBookYouSayThings

I don't know if I'm a Twitter addict. That seems kind of harsh. I would say it's more that I'm seriously involved. That it's a long-term relationship - like a girlfriend, which my actual girlfriend loves to hear.

Chris Hardwick

RelationshipKnowSayKindSeriously

My style evolves day by day; I love change.

Chiara Ferragni

LoveChangeStyleDayI Love

We learn much during our sleep, and the knowledge thus gained slowly filters into the physical brain, and is occasionally impressed upon it as a vivid and illuminative dream.

Annie Besant

KnowledgeSleepBrainLearnDream

I felt the most effective way to change people's perception was through the power of images.

Alix Smith

ChangePowerPeoplePerceptionWay

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

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