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Maybe Bernie [Sanders] lost his perspective because he became a part of the Washington culture. Maybe it's a generational thing.
The non-spatial nature of consciousness makes it possible for any apparently unconscious entity to be conscious, and vice versa.
I would send the complete works of Johann Sebastian Bach into outer space on the Voyager spacecraft. But that would be boasting.
If you want to use a cliche you must take full responsibility for it yourself and not try to fob it off on anon., or on society.
Some of the shrewdest insight into natural processes have been greeted at the outset by the exclamation 'But that's ridiculous'.
When you have solved the problem of controlling the attention of the child, you have solved the entire problem of its education.
If education is protection to life, you will realize that it is necessary that education accompany life during its whole course.
Up to a thousand milligrams of caffeine is considered safe for most people, which translates into about 10 cups of coffee a day.
The profession to which we belong, once venerated...-has become corrupt and degenerate to the forfeiture of its social position.
The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.
We are always looking for a grand program of action full of great ideas, when the thing is to begin by obeying the little ideas.
I think when we use 'stress', we are often using a kind of dummy word to try to fit many different things into one big category.
What we do in the laboratory is we try to design drugs that will not just eradicate cancer cells but will eradicate their homes.
The young doctor should look about early for an avocation, a pastime, that will take him away from patients, pills, and potions.
I'm not a politician, I'm not an economist. I'm just a simple Brian surgeon and a scientist who's trying to do my best every day.
This life of ours...human life is like a flower gloriously blooming in a meadow: along comes a goat, eats it up---no more flower.
Life is difficult for those who have the daring to first set out on an unknown road. The avant-garde always has a bad time of it.
What's the use of talking? You can see for yourself that this is a barbarous country; the people have no morals; and the boredom!
One must never place a loaded rifle on the stage if it isn't going to go off. It's wrong to make promises you don't mean to keep.
There are times, young fellah, when every one of us must make a stand for human right and justice, or you never feel clean again.
Well, sir, let us do what we can to curtail this visit, which can hardly be agreeable to you, and is inexpressibly irksome to me.
It's true, you can lose weight on these high-animal-protein, Atkins-type diets, but you're mortgaging your health in the process.
You can analyse the past, but you need to design the future. That is the difference between suffering the future and enjoying it.
A good listener is very nearly as attractive as a good talker. You cannot have a beautiful mind if you do not know how to listen.
It is common error to infer that things which are consecutive in order of time have necessarily the relation of cause and effect.
In my country (Belgium), if you sit beside the phone long enough, it will ring and you will be invited to play rugby for Belgium!
One Hundred Year Starship really is about the idea that is we pursue an extraordinary tomorrow; we'll build a better world today.
Education should no longer be most imparting of knowledge, but must take a new path, seeking the release of human potentialities.
The first idea that the child must acquire, in order to be actively disciplined, is that of the difference between good and evil.
Don't get me wrong, I admire elegance and have an appreciation of the finer things in life. But to me, beauty lies in simplicity.
Today, every skirmish in every part of the planet is broadcast straight into your living room live, in HD... over and over again.
Shed, as you do your garments, your daily sins, whether of omission or commission, and you will wake a free man, with a new life.
He had so many ways of climbing into the tree house in his head, escaping the madness below, and pulling the ladder up behind him.
People should be beautiful in every way - in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts, and in their innermost selves.
You confuse two things: solving a problem and stating a problem correctly. It is only the second that is obligatory for an artist.
In countries where there is a mild climate, less effort is expended on the struggle with nature and man is kinder and more gentle.
I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.
Everything comes in circles. [...] The old wheel turns, and the same spoke comes up. It's all been done before, and will be again.
It is steadily forgotten that health is a diathesis as much as is scrofula or syphilis and that each of these is a mode of growth.
Asking a question is the simplest way of focusing thinking...asking the right question may be the most important part of thinking.
The system will always be defended by those countless people who have enough intellect to defend but not quite enough to innovate.
Strange are the ways of history, where no single thing abides, but all things flow into each other, fragment to fragment clinging.
There has never been any country at every moment so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes needed to be saved from itself.
Whoever, in the pursuit of science, seeks after immediate practical utility, may generally rest assured that he will seek in vain.
We're seeing the convergence of a big, corporate party right now. A sort of bipartisan merger under the figure of Hillary Clinton.
One of the most important things about leadership is that you have to have the kind of humility that will allow you to be coached.
In my own view, the life expectancy of Native Americans in the United States is one of the really great moral crises that we face.
The pearl whose possession separates man from beast, the pearl which is the rarest find - the best among virtues - is forgiveness.
Science provides an understanding of a universal experience, and arts provides a universal understanding of a personal experience.
Berries have a lot of soluble fiber. That's why they gel up when you're making your Thanksgiving cranberry sauce, with the pectin.