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While Occam’s razor is a useful tool in the physical sciences, it can be a very dangerous implement in biology. It is thus very rash to use simplicity and elegance as a guide in biological research.

Physical Dangerous Biology Simplicity
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While DNA could be claimed to be both simple and elegant, it must be remembered that DNA almost certainly originated fairly close to the origin of life when things were necessarily simple or they would not have got going.

Life Elegant DNA Origin
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God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.

GOd Purest Human Planted
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Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.

Fashion Social Intercourse Form
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Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.
Judges Inferences Law Torture
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Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.

Nature Forth Large Bounded
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What you see in other people is a reflection of yourself. A person of goodness sees goodness in others and a person of evil sees evil in others.

See People Reflection Good
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This is absolutely bizarre that we continue to subsidize highways beyond the gasoline tax, airlines, and we don't subsidize, we don't want to subsidize a national rail system that has environmental impact.

Absolutely Airlines Beyond Bizarre
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When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened.

About Crashed Franklin Roosevelt
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Now, people when I say that look at me and say, 'What are you talking about, Joe? You're telling me we have to go spend money to keep from going bankrupt?'. The answer is yes, that's what I'm telling you.

About Answer Bankrupt Go
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The Recovery Act is working, but it's going to continue to work. It's not over. A lot's going to happen this summer. And even after the summer, there's more to come with the act.

Act After Come Continue
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In the middle of a recession, where we're just climbing out of it, where the economy -unemployment is still at 9.7 percent, the idea of raising taxes and reducing spending is a prescription for disaster.

Climbing Disaster Economy Idea
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The White House isn't the place to learn how to deal with international crisis, the balance of power, war and peace, and the economic future of the next generation.

Crisis Deal Economic Economic Future
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Before I write the first page of a novel, I spend a long time creating detailed backgrounds for my characters. I imagine the experiences that have formed them, what makes them happy, angry, fearful, and what they yearn for.

Angry Backgrounds Before Characters
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I grew up being very shy, very much a bookworm, and I remember desperately wondering how to be accepted by the popular kids.

Accepted Being Desperately Grew
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I will admit, I once launched myself at Julie Garwood for a hug, hoping some of her magic would rub off on me... and I have fangirl crushes on Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Linda Howard, and Kresley Cole, among many others.

Admit Among Crushes Elizabeth
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I have always been an obsessive reader - I remember going back and forth to the local library with stacks of books taller than I was.

Always Back Been Book
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No matter what your profession is, it's good to scare yourself a little from time to time! It's crucial to keep challenging yourself and to learn from people who are more accomplished than you are.

Accomplished Challenging Crucial From
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We all know that being able to express deep emotion can literally save a person's life, and suppressing emotion can kill you both spiritually and physically.

Able Being Both Deep
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Love is always a leap into the unknown. You can try to control as many variables, and understand a situation as you can, but you're still jumping off a cliff and hoping that someone catches you.

Always Cliff Control Hoping
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This is not Tolstoy. I don't want to know what critics and professors think of what I'm writing. It might hurt my feelings.

Critics Feelings Hurt Know
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Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.

Fame Light Solid Swollen
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I've always been a reader and a writer.

Always Been Reader Writer
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When I turned to writing fantasy, and writing for young people, it was joyous. It was like discovering an underground lake of ideas that went on forever.

Discovering Fantasy Forever Ideas
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If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.

Man Gracious World Citizen
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I think with world building, it's important to create a sense of culture even if it is just a fantasy, and the best way to do that is to look at a real human culture and see what makes it cohesive.

Building Create Culture Even
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He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.

Advice Example Admonition Build
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It's easy to get published once you have written a really good book and the hard part, 99 percent of what you need to worry about, is really finishing it.

About Book Easy Finishing
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When you are young, hone your craft and write shorter pieces instead of novels, because it's really hard to finish a novel.

Because Craft Finish Hard
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The sooner you learn to finish things, and as a matter of course finish your creative endeavors, the better. It took me a long time to learn that.

Better Course Creative Endeavors
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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
Fear Comfort Adversity Distastes
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The main thing I've learned is that we all have to learn to work with - and appreciate - the brain we've been given, and not waste time wishing things were easier.

Appreciate Been Brain Easier
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Never sit staring at a blank page or screen. If you find yourself stuck, write. Write about the scene you're trying to write. Writing about is easier than writing, and chances are, it will give you your way in.

About Chances Easier Find
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Dialogue is the place that books are most alive and forge the most direct connection with readers. It is also where we as writers discover our characters and allow them to become real.

Alive Allow Also Become
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If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

Everything Garden Library You
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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.
Natural Infant Painful Die
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Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.

Look Fortune Blind Invisible
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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Life Age Miserable Happy
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The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.

Spirit Genius Nation Proverbs
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The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.

Joy Grieves Fear Secret
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The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

Subtlety Nature Sense Greater
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This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

Certain Man Revenge Green
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Swearing was invented as a compromise between running away and fighting.

Swearing Invented Fighting Compromise
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If Christian scientists had more science and doctors more Christianity, it wouldn't make any difference which you called in - if you had a good nurse.
Christain Science Good Nurse
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The world is not growing worse and it is not growing better - it is just turning around as usual.

World Worse Usual Turning
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Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.

Ethical Giants Infants Know
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This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.

Act Acting Battle Circumstances
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I am convinced that the best service a retired general can perform is to turn in his tongue along with his suit and to mothball his opinions.

Best Convinced General Opinions
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Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them, must share the guilt for the dead.

Dead Fail Guilt Prevent
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Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.

Designed Ever Intangible Leadership
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