"There is a tendency at every important but difficult crossroad to pretend that it's not really there."

-- Bill McKibben

#Challenges Quotes #Important Quotes #Tendencies Quotes

“A lot of my research time is spent daydreaming - telling an imaginary admiring audience of laymen how to understand some difficult scientific idea.”
“Precision medicine is diving into the DNA with a knowledge that everybody's tumor has a unique genetic profile and you want to be able to identify that specific piece of DNA that has become mutated and that is driving cancer growth.”

Source : Source: to.pbs.org
“I am who I am. In the end, I feel that what I'm accountable for is doing a good job as a football coach.”
“Love is the great protector, protecting us from anger and jealousy.”
“I'm an actor, and when I close the door at home I'm kind of off-duty.”

Source : Interview with Christopher Carle, www.ign.com. April 11, 2012.
“I think every fantasy reader secretly believes they know how magic works.”
“As an allegorical art, then, photography would represent our desire to fix the transitory, the ephemeral, in a stable and stabilizing image.”

Source : Craig Owens, Scott Stewart Bryson (1994). “Beyond Recognition: Representation, Power, and Culture”, p.56, Univ of California Press
“If you feed the poor, you're a saint. If you ask why they're poor, you're a Communist.”

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