I was a bad practicing physician because I was never sure of the diagnosis or of the treatment. - Joshua Lederberg - Quotesmemo.com

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Making music and art is about expressing something that's universally human, maybe even beyond human, at best. To make it about the artist and to dwell upon biographical information can only make it singular, and I am really, really disgusted by that.

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Joshua Lederberg

I was a bad practicing physician because I was never sure of the diagnosis or of the treatment.

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I certainly saw science as a kind of calling, and one with as much legitimacy as a religious calling.

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I believe I am a person with unusual talents. I think I'd be a liar or stupid if I were to deny that.

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I did get a very fine education, and not just in science. It took some pressure on the part of my elders to convince me that I really should take an interest in humanities.

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I wish I had a talent for dropping things as well as taking on new ones. It gets to be quite a clutter after a while.

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I hope I've lived a life of science whose style will encourage younger people.

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Every parent worries for their child, but I do worry that he's all right, and happy and stable, and that I've done the best that I can. He's a good boy - so far so good. But if you're a parent, it doesn't matter if your child is five or 50 - you still worry.

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Islam, the third in historical sequence of the ethical monotheistic religions of the Near East, was very successful in establishing its monotheism, but had only very moderate success in spreading its version of Jewish and Christian ethics to the Arabs.

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Cass McCombs

Making music and art is about expressing something that's universally human, maybe even beyond human, at best. To make it about the artist and to dwell upon biographical information can only make it singular, and I am really, really disgusted by that.

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An old Arabian fable tells of a prince imprisoned in a castle which had thirteen windows. Twelve of these windows overlooked lovely scenes, while the thirteenth looked down on the black ash heaps of the city. Ignoring the twelve windows, the prince always looked out through the thirteenth. It is so often true that whether a person carries with him an atmosphere of gloom and depression or one of confidence and courage depends on his individual outlook.

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