"The cell never acts; it reacts."

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Source : Generelle Morphologie

Ernst Haeckel

“I went to the doctor last week. I said: 'Can I have some sleeping pills for the wife?' He said: 'Why?' I said: 'She's woke up.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“The trouble is that all the investigators proceeded in exactly the same spirit, the spirit that is of scientific curiosity, and with no possibility of telling whether the issue of their work would prove them to be fiends, or dreamers, or angels.”
“Maimed but still magnificent... Europe's mightiest medieval cathedral.”
“All art is an imitation of nature.”
“It never seems to occur to people that a man might just want to write a piece of music.”
“Teenage girls, please donâ€™t worry about being super popular in high school, or being the best actress in high school, or the best athlete. Not only do people not care about any of that the second you graduate, but when you get older, if you reference your successes in high school too much, it actually makes you look kind of pitiful, like some babbling old Tennessee Williams character with nothing else going on in her current life. What Iâ€™ve noticed is that almost no one who was a big star in high school is also big star later in life. For us overlooked kids, itâ€™s so wonderfully fair.”
“It's so nice to be insane, no one asks you to explain.”

Source : Song: Angie Baby
“I have more money now than I know what to do with.”

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