Norman Davies Quotes

States seem to have a natural life cycle, and anything can occur to change them into something else, and that something might be no bad thing.

Norman Davies

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It turns out that this part of the brain is one of the first areas that's attacked by Alzheimer's disease. So we can now use some of the basic understanding of this part of the brain to ask the simple question, 'What is going wrong with these special cells in the hippocampus at the very earliest stages?'

John O'Keefe

SimpleBrainUnderstandingWrongNow

My fight-or-flight mechanism... had served me well in Gaza, in Afghanistan, and all the places I'd been.

Michael Finkel

MePlacesAfghanistanWellBeenHad

We have more media than ever and more technology in our lives. It's supposed to help us communicate, but it has the opposite effect of isolating us.

Tracy Chapman

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If we ever established contact with intelligent life on another world, there would be barriers to communication. First, they would be many light years away, so signals would take many years to reach them: there would be no scope for quick repartee. There might be an IQ gap.

Martin Rees

LifeCommunicationLightWorldReach

Instead of looking at life as a narrowing funnel, we can see it ever widening to choose the things we want to do, to take the wisdom we've learned and create something.

Liz Carpenter

LifeWisdomLookingChooseCreate

I definitely try to mix humour into anything I do, even if it is into a drama.

Jorge Garcia

DramaTryHumourAnythingEvenMix

My wife, if she wants it, she will just go out and buy it.

Chris Daughtry

WifeGoWillSheOutBuy

Israel is a wonderful country. It's a beautiful country. It is ours. But it is a country with 10,000 problems that we have to solve and deal.

Ariel Sharon

BeautifulProblemsCountryWonderful

I don't have a problem with how people receive the music. I feel like it's for everybody.

ASAP Ferg

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There's not a lot of other stuff I admire about his content, but there's something about Howard Stern and his perseverance in a very difficult industry. He does tickle me in certain ways with humor.

Ashleigh Banfield

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I have been to Libya and walked the streets of Benghazi myself.

Susan Rice

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I made the choice long ago to write about real life. And life is both serious and funny.

Paula Danziger

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