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To all those who have drawn the inference from my words that Africa, as a continent, is somehow genetically inferior, I can only apologise unreservedly.

Africa Continent Drawn Genetically
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I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.

Dreamed Genome Lifetime My Own
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The strange story about life is that it has many colors.
Strange story Life Many colors
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We're not all equal, it's simply not true. That isn't science.

Equal Science Simply True
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There is no such thing as free time. Time comes with a price. You either pay for it with good deeds that will benefit you in the afterlife or with idleness and sins that will cause you great regret when you stand…

Such thing Free time Price Pay
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Times are hard without a doubt. Many are ill, have lost their jobs etc. But always believe that things will get better. Remember, everything in this world is temporary. So the sadness, anxiety & overthinking will pass. Bear patience for a while longer. Eternal bliss awaits us!

Times Hard Lost Jobs
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If we could honestly promise young couples that we knew how to give them offspring with superior character, why should we assume they would decline? Common sense tells us that if scientists find ways to greatly improve human capabilities, there will no stopping the public from happily seizing them.

Assume Capabilities Character Common
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We should govern our actions by assuming that people are more good than bad. Whereas, most of our social policies dictate that people are more bad than good. That you know if you do something, it'll be seized by the rich to exploit the poor.

Actions Assuming Bad Dictate
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I never wanted to be liked by the majority of people, but there were always some people that I desperately wanted to be liked by. And so you've got to behave in a way that... the way I put it is that if you want to be a real intellectual, you've got to have someone to save you.

Always Behave Desperately Got
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My wife and I have a schizophrenic son. We didn't want to accept this for 30 years, so we put him under great pressure when we shouldn't have. He just wanted to be looked after, and we didn't respect that. We tried to make him independent.

Accept After Great He
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May Allah accept our fasting, forgive our sins, wash away the pandemic that covers our nations and heal the globe.

Accept Our fasting Forgive Sins
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If someone's liver doesn't work, we blame it on the genes; if someone's brain doesn't work properly, we blame the school. It's actually more humane to think of the condition as genetic. For instance, you don't want to say that someone is born unpleasant, but sometimes that might be true.

Actually Be True Blame Born
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If you accept that people are the products of evolution, then you have to have an open mind to the truth. Unfair discrimination exists whether we like it or not; I wouldn't have married a gum-chewing vegetarian.

Accept Discrimination Evolution Exists
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If you go into science, I think you better go in with a dream that maybe you, too, will get a Nobel Prize. It's not that I went in and I thought I was very bright and I was going to get one, but I'll confess, you know, I knew what it was.

Better Bright Confess Dream
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The best way to respond to this pandemic is to maintain a sense of calm and hope. It can be difficult with the influx of daily news that causes anxiety. But we must, for our own sanity. Listen to what the experts tell you, not those who fear monger. Above all, trust the Almighty.

Best way Pandemic Maintain Calm
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I have an odd theory on happiness, and it bothers people. My general theory is that happiness is a reward for an animal doing what it should be doing. So if a horse runs, it feels happy. Or if you are too thin, you can't be happy, because evolution wants you to be tense and anxious, trying to wake up in the morning looking for food.

Animal Anxious Be Happy Because
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Make yourself so busy that you do not notice those who dislike you for their selfish reason, because life is too short to be wasted by giving attention to the nay sayers.

Make yourself Notice Dislike you Selfish reason
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I started doing science when I was effectively 20, a graduate student of Salvador Luria at Indiana University. And that was - you know, it took me about two years, you know, being a graduate student with Luria deciding I wanted to find the structure of DNA; that is, DNA was going to be my objective.

About Being Deciding DNA
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I don't want 100 different cures of cancer. I want, you know, give me five. So if you had, you know, five medicines, you could do away with 90 percent of cancer. That's sort of my objective. I think we're going to do it.

Away Cancer Could Cures
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Protect your inner peace and all the emotions that go with it. It’s important for your overall well-being.Save your energy for the important things that the Almighty will send your way!

Protect Inner peace Emotions Well being
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The fact that my grown kids like to hang out with me, I mean, it just - I don't think it really can get any better than that, I don't think.

Any Better Fact Get
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The tree that does not support us when we lean on it cannot kill us when it falls on us.

The tree Support us Lean Kill
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Your smile will give you a positive countenance that will make people feel comfortable around you.
Your smile Positive countenance Comfortable
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Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest man and to the gentleman.

Belongs Both Breeding Candor
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It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engine, in order to obtain liberty, than can be borne with less important objects in view; for the press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.

Accord Borne Engine Excellent
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Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Fame Vapor Accident Riches
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While boasting of our noble deeds we're careful to conceal the ugly fact that by an iniquitous money system we have nationalized a system of oppression which, though more refined, is not less cruel than the old system of chattel slavery.

Boasting Noble deeds Ugly fact Iniquitous
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A monarchy is the most expensive of all forms of government, the regal state requiring a costly parade, and he who depends on his own power to rule, must strengthen that power by bribing the active and enterprising whom he cannot intimidate.

Active Cannot Costly Depends
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The cool kindliness of sheets, that soon smooth away trouble; and the rough male kiss of blankets.

Away Blankets Cool Kiss
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All greatness of character is dependent on individuality. The man who has no other existence than that which he partakes in common with all around him, will never have any other than an existence of mediocrity.

All-Around Any Around Character
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All that a good government aims at... is to add no unnecessary and artificial aid to the force of its own unavoidable consequences, and to abstain from fortifying and accumulating social inequality as a means of increasing political inequalities.

Abstain Accumulate Add Aid
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They who have reasoned ignorantly, or who have aimed at effecting their personal ends by flattering the popular feeling, have boldly affirmed that 'one man is as good as another;' a maxim that is true in neither nature, revealed morals, nor political theory.

Another Boldly Ends Feeling
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No civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its bosom that is stronger than the law.

Active Bosom Civilized Civilized Society
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The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority.

Abuse Disposition Does Majority
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It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil.

Agency Aim Evil Good
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I can never tire of speaking of the bridges of Paris. By day and by night have I paused on them to gaze at their views; the word not being too comprehensive for the crowds and groupings of objects that are visible from their arches.

Being Bridges Comprehensive Crowds
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Yeah, I was in the phase for the last ten years or so where every record I made I said OK, that's the last one, I don't want to record anymore, I don't want to do this any more, I don't want to have a public life.

Any Anymore Every Last
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And I don't think that success is going to destroy me at this point in my life, like I used to think.

Destroy Going Life Like
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Acting is an art form and you want to take roles that are challenged and it's more of a challenge I think to play dark characters. Not that I want to always play those, but it is a challenge and challenges are rewarding and fun.

Acting Always Art Art Form
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I think it is wrong that we went against The U.N. and that we have alienated our allies and invaded a country that hasn't threatened us, that it is a pre-emptive strike.

Against Alienated Allies Country
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The general view is that actors start on soaps and then maybe graduate to prime-time television or film; normally you don't see a film actor going to do a soap.

Actor Actor Film General
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I was an English major at UCLA when I was 18, and then I left after a year to start acting. I was educating myself during that time.

Acting After Educating English
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One of the things I've learned as a filmmaker is to have some aspect of the movie be something that I admire greatly, whether that's an actor I'm working with, the subject matter, or a book.

Actor Admire Aspect Book
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There's a tendency, when you're directing yourself, not to give the performance as much care, because you feel like there's too much focus on yourself, or that all these people are just standing around setting everything up, waiting for you.

Around Because Care Directing
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I feel like because I've done more gay characters, gay scenes, or gay projects than most straight actors, people see it as some sort of mission. It's more of a case-by-case basis, and just trying to capture figures that I love. I guess that a lot of the figures that I love were gay.

Actor Basis Because Capture
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There's a tacit belief that actors shouldn't write books, they're sort of allowed to direct movies but there will be a lot of skepticism, and they shouldn't do artwork or music. There are these invisible roadblocks to gain entree to these areas for actors, and you kind of have to crash through those invisible barriers.

Actor Allowed Area Artwork
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The important thing to me is that I'm not driven by people's praise and I'm not slowed down by people's criticism. I'm just trying to work at the highest level I can.

Criticism Down Driven Highest
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I don't make demands. I don't tell you how it should be. I'll give you options, and it's up to you to select or throw 'em away. That should be the headline: If you're insecure, don't call.

Away Call Demands Give
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I really feel sorry for people who are, who divide their whole life up into 'things that I like' and 'things that I must do.' You're only here for a short time, mate. Learn to like it.

Divide Feel Here Learn
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There has to be a mathematical explanation for how bad that tie is.

Bad Explanation How Mathematical
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