Mark Pagel Quotes

Having culture means we are the only animal that acquires the rules of its daily living from the accumulated knowledge of our ancestors, rather than from the genes they pass to us.

Mark Pagel

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I drink to forget I drink.

Joe E. Lewis

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Trends carry on forever, until they stop. I want to be around after things come to a standstill. As a result, I tend to be pretty conservative.

Johann Rupert

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Celebrating Christmas without subscribing to Christianity is like watching the Super Bowl without watching a regular season game. Some people watch the Super Bowl for the commercials; others watch it for the halftime show.

Andrew Shaffer

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I have a lot of critics, and that's fine. I think it's better to be polarizing than to be vanilla. I also think people can't question the passion and sincerity that I bring because I truly am the luckiest guy in the world.

Mauro Ranallo

PassionPeopleWorldThinkBetter

Telling the world is the most difficult experience of my life, but it is very close to having to live through the experience that occasion this meeting.

Anita Hill

LifeLiveExperienceWorldMy Life

My father was ethnically Jewish, but his family converted to Catholicism.

Tom Hollander

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I wanted to invent an engine that could run for ever. I could have developed a new train, had I stayed in the railway. It would have looked like the AK-47 though.

Mikhail Kalashnikov

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We have really good data that show when you take patients and you really inform them about their choices, patients make more frugal choices. They pick more efficient choices than the health care system does.

Donald Berwick

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I believe there's a secret chemical that's turned loose when you have kids that says you've got to survive, you've got to be strong. That keeps you on your toes, besides all kinds of other things, when you have three little ones running around.

Clyde Edgerton

Be StrongSurviveBelieveStrongYou

I actually was raised Baptist. I'm from the South, so you definitely know a lot of conservative people.

Clark Duke

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All I want is the defining moment.

Brian Bosworth

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I'm proud to have earned a 100 percent score from Planned Parenthood and to have been previously endorsed by both Planned Parenthood and NARAL Pro Choice.

Brad Schneider

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