"If the germ plasm wants to swim in the ocean, it makes itself a fish; if the germ plasm wants to fly in the air, it makes itself a bird. If it wants to go to Harvard, it makes itself a man. The strangest thing of all is that the germ plasm that we carry around within us has done all those things. There was a time, hundreds of millions of years ago, when it was making fish. Then ... amphibia ... reptiles ... mammals, and now it's making men."

-- George Wald

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“In a novel, the author gives the leading character intelligence and distinction. Fate goes to less trouble: mediocrities play a part in great events simply from happening to be there.”
“I had the standard movie geek childhood, because for as long as I can remember, all I wanted to do was make movies.”
“You want to have fun but you also want to work well. Sometimes I was quite happy at Ferrari, because we would have fun, but then they could not stop having fun and go back to the real work.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Everyone should smile. Life really isnâ€™t that serious. We make it hard. The sun rises. The sun sets. We just tend to complicate the process.”

Source : "Arian Foster: The NFL's Unstoppable Vegan Philosopher" by Peter Schrager, www.gq.com. August 22, 2013.
“I couldn't live my reputation down - all right then, I'd live up to it.”
“Find better company, find company of people better than yourself so you be surrounded with those best in character and so you may learn something.”
“The past doesn't haunt us, we haunt the past.”
“These people have elevated audacity to symphonic and operatic levels. The Florida Supreme Court relied on new law to resolve the election dispute down there.”

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