"I learned about HeLa cells in my first basic biology class, and I just became completely obsessed with them from that point on."

-- Rebecca Skloot

#Class Quotes #Cells Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“He testified that when you looked at it through the eyes of 'let's do it,' the costs were very small. They were less than they'd had to spend to host a convention of transportation executives. The cost was not that great.”
“No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise. But when Governor Romney and his allies in Congress tell us we can somehow lower our deficit by spending trillions more on new tax breaks for the wealthy - well, you do the math. I refuse to go along with that. And as long as I'm President, I never will.”
“A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.”
“I love figure skating and what I am able to express creatively. I want to leave a legacy in the sport.”
“... She knew in her heart that to be without optimism, that core of reasonless hope in the spirit rather than the brain, was a fatal flaw, the seed of death.”

Source : Anne Perry (2011). “Callander Square”, p.184, Open Road Media
“Improvise when obstacles present themselves. Happy accidents are magic! Have an open mind.”
“I think that there are many different ways of getting and staying sober. Like religion, I just don't think that one way is the only way.”
“In contrast [to trees and fish], oil, metals, and coal are not renewable; they don't reproduce, sprout, or have sex to produce baby oil droplets or coal nuggets.”

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