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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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The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

Life Soul Good Evil
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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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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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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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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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The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.

Men Superstition Observe Hit
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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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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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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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The past always looks better than it was; it's only pleasant because it isn't here.

Here Past Pleasant Better
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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 wise people are in New York because the foolish went there first, that's the way the wise men make a living.

People Wise First Living
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That is, no matther whether th' constitution follows th' flag or not, th' supreme coort follows th' iliction returns.

Follow Iliction Return Flag
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When the American people get through with the English language, it will look as if it had been run over by a musical comedy.

People Musical Comedy English
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The hero of the book does long to experience God. But his conception of God is very western.

Book Conception Does Experience
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The opponents of this process have always tried to vilify westernization as a poor imitation.

Always Imitation Opponents Poor
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I look like a casual, laid-back guy, but it's like a circus in my head.

Casual Circus Guy Head
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I hooked up my accelerator pedal in my car to my brake lights. I hit the gas, people behind me stop, and I'm gone.

Behind Brake Car Gas
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I replaced the headlights in my car with strobe lights, so it looks like I'm the only one moving.

Headlights Lights Like Looks
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I wrote a few children's books... not on purpose.

Books Children Few Purpose
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It doesn't matter what temperature the room is, it's always room temperature.

Always Matter Room Temperature
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Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone.

Able After Alone Been
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Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

Body Cultivation Food Mind
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I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams

Dream Life Interpret Looking
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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.

Books Funny Little Pieces
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Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.

Automatically Believes Deserves Enough
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The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face.

Apparent Argument Being Escape
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A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.

Forgive Loser Petty Rebuke
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Opportunity knocks at every man's door once. On some men's door it hammers till it breaks down the door and then it goes in and wakes him up if he's asleep, and ever afterward it works for him as a night watchman.

Ever Men's Once Door
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Something GOOD is going to happen to you today.
Something Good Happen Today
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Obstacles will look large or small to you according to whether you are large or small.

Obstacle Look Large Challenge
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You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.

Coutry Beer Football Weapons
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Interviewer: 'So Frank, you have long hair. Does that make you a woman?' Frank Zappa: 'You have a wooden leg. Does that make you a table?

Woman Funny Wooden Table
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Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.

Wild Liable Eye Squarely
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Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.

Keep Joyfulness Heart Face
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You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company - a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Upright You Honest Interest
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God could not have chosen anyone less qualified, or more of a sinner, than myself. And so, for this wonderful work He intends to perform through us, He selected me- for God always chooses the weak and the absurd, and those who count for nothing.

God Qualified Sinner Work
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I love making people laugh and feel good, and that's awesome and special for me to be able to do that, but there really is nothing like kicking ass whether it's on a major scale, or whether it's in more of a dramatic fashion. Being physical and taking care of business the old-fashioned way is something that I love doing.

Able Awesome Being Business
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It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

Baldness Foolish Grief Hair
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Only by strict specialization can the scientific worker become fully conscious, for once and perhaps never again in his lifetime, that he has achieved something that will endure. A really definitive and good accomplishment is today always a specialized act.

Accomplishment Achieved Act Again
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Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he will not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or base for what he wants to offer. Only he who in the face of all this can say In spite of all! has the calling for politics.

Base Calling Crumble Face
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No sociologist should think himself too good, even in his old age, to make tens of thousands of quite trivial computations in his head and perhaps for months at a time.

Age Computation Even Good
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