"Iâ€™ll always marvel at the liveliness of southern speech-so full of metaphor and hyperbole, quirks and vividness."

-- Frances Mayes

#Southern Quotes #Speech Quotes #Metaphor Quotes

“That work led to the emergence of the recombinant DNA technology thereby providing a major tool for analyzing mammalian gene structure and function and formed the basis for me receiving the 1980 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.”
“We are connected to each other not only as humans, but to every living thing on the planet.”
“Usefulness depends on tractability.”

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“I have fun like a child in the street. When the day comes when I'm not enjoying it, I will leave football.”
“The religious quality of Marxism also explains a characteristic attitude of the orthodox Marxist toward opponents. To him, as to any believer in a Faith, the opponent is not merely in error but in sin. Dissent is disapproved of not only intellectually but also morally. There cannot be any excuse for it once the Message has been revealed.”
“More of the same will just produce more of the same: less competitiveness, less growth, fewer jobs.”
“But the tale or narrative set in the past may have its particular time-free value; and the candid reader will not misunderstand me, will not suppose that I intend any preposterous comparison, when I observe that Homer was farther removed in time from Troy than I am from the Napoleonic wars; yet he spoke to the Greeks for 2,000 years and more.”
“To most humans, a universe consisting of particles banging about and doing what they have to do seems cold, barren, and without meaning. Meaning, however, is not something that floats in space, permeating the universe like a nebulous, mystical cloud. ... Meaning arises out of the working of the human mind, and therefore exists only in the human mind. The meaning of existence is whatever you want to make of it.”

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