Sam Kean Quotes

No one knows quite the reason, but surgically severing the corpus callosum can reduce the rate and intensity of seizures. So in the early 1960s, a few patients with severe epilepsy had their corpus callosums cut, turning them into split-brain people.

Sam Kean

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Some in Europe take a plane, fly to Silicon Valley, visit and look and come back and say we need to do the same thing. Well you can copy others... but if you always copy others, you never get ahead.

Joe Kaeser

FlyYouLookBackCopySay

It's like a weird mindset to wake up and want to be wanted. Like, I want to be wanted so much already... and I'm so greedy for other people's desire that I have to really force myself to have some shame about it and some control, neither of which come easily to me.

Jenny Zhang

MyselfPeopleMeControlWake Up

We didn't just want to go out and do that whole greatest hits thing.

Andy Taylor

GoWantOutGreatestWholeJust

We want a faithful Catholic businessman not to have to provide a service he finds unethical.

Jeff Fortenberry

ServiceWantFaithfulBusinessmanHe

Although I grew up in very modest and challenging circumstances, I consider my life to be immeasurably rich.

Sonia Sotomayor

LifeRichMy LifeCircumstancesUp

'The Cut' is going to give someone the opportunity of a lifetime and help that person achieve his or her dreams.

Tommy Hilfiger

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Space opera was the sort of story on which I grew up. When I was younger, I read heavily in pulp magazines. They were readily available in the stores.

Roger Zelazny

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I'm not a big AA guy, but I'll go every once in a while. They do tell you that going out and helping other people really helps you a lot. It seems like a simple thing to say, but it's really true.

Jason Isbell

SimplePeopleYouGoSayTrue

Love of our neighbour, then, has just the same respect to, is no more distant from, self-love, than hatred of our neighbour, or than love or hatred of anything else.

Joseph Butler

LoveRespectSelf-LoveMoreHatred

At the present moment the people of England are only three-quarters fed, and the result of this improvement in the export of our manufactures would be, that they would be entirely fed.

Joseph Hume

MomentImprovementPeoplePresent

Let the teachers teach English and I will teach baseball. There is a lot of people in the United States who say isn't, and they ain't eating.

Dizzy Dean

BaseballPeopleEatingSayWill

As I found while leading special operations forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, if the problem is interconnected, your organization must be, as well.

Chris Fussell

OrganizationProblemSpecialWell

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