"The greatest single achievement of nature to date was surely the invention of the molecule DNA."

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Source : Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

Lewis Thomas

#Nature Quotes #Dna Quotes #Achievement Quotes

“I like the fact that I can do stunts, but I don't think of myself as a stunt guy. Those guys are really good at what they do.”

Source : Designer Magazine Interview, designermagazine.tripod.com.
“Gray imagined Kat scolding her husband in an operatic duet that has been going on between husbands and wives for ages, that eternal mix of exasperation and love." -- James Rollins”

Source : FaceBook post by James Rollins from May 03, 2012
“I'm not OK, you're not OK-and that's OK.”
“It is a wonderful, moving, heart-filling experience to sit with the man or woman you love and your beloved children and know that all are happy to be just where they are with each other and loving one another. This doesnt happen very often.”

Source : Amy Bloom (2010). “Where the God of Love Hangs Out: Fiction”, p.223, Random House
“Justice is that which is practiced by God himself, and to be practiced in its perfection by none but him. Omniscience and omnipotence are requisite for the full exertion of it.”
“Cast yourself into the arms of God and be very sure that if he wants anything of you, He will fit you for the work and give you strength.”
“View a stumbling block as a learning opportunity. If you allow it to defeat you, it will. Honestly, if I give everything I have, I can't be disappointed with the outcome.”
“The nation seems to slouch onward into its uncertain future like some huge inarticulate beast, too much attainted by wounds and ailments to be robust, but too strong and resourceful to succumb.”

Source : Quoted in Hedrick Smith The Power Game (1988).

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