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Francis Collins Quotes

One must dig deeply into opposing points of view in order to know whether your own position remains defensible. Iron sharpens iron.

Francis Collins

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: american
Birth: April 14, 1950

Topics

View Know Iron Position Order Own

If we turn to palaeontology to tell us about our biological evolution it is to prehistory that we look for evidence of the evolution of specifically human patterns of behaviour.

John G. D. Clark

Look Evolution Human Turn Tell Us

Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.

Friendship Love Good Confidence Fire

They don't have a lot of crime in the countryside other than theft. But every once in a while, things turn ugly, and when they turn ugly, they turn very ugly.

Ugly Crime Turn Things Theft Than

If I was a criminal, stationery stores and bakeries would be the two kinds of places I would concentrate on.

Places Two Kinds Criminal Would

When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.'

Time You One Word Write Answer Word

I think no one knows what humanitarian intervention means. If I were a person who was non-American, I would think humanitarian intervention is just another name for United States imperialism.

Stanley Hauerwas

Think Name Person Imperialism United

I think with every book you realize you are partway through and there is something really elementary that you should have researched.

Book Think You Realize Something

I'm into looking at things from the other point of view. And if you look at who votes in the Oscars, mostly older Jewish guys, they're going to vote for stuff they relate to. Do they relate to NWA? I doubt it.

Looking View You Point Of View Look

Nobody was talking about healthcare until 'Sicko' came out.

Talking Healthcare Nobody Out Until

The real stars are not good actors or actresses. They're personalities.

Jayne Mansfield

Good Stars Real Personalities

It is said that the way to prevent obesity is not to allow kids to become overweight in the first place. But it takes a multi-pronged approach that has to start with parents. Kids are just too young to understand the consequences of obesity.

Parents Start Consequences Place Way

Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.

Arnold J. Toynbee

Imagination Storm Practice Plan Two

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