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Rene Dubos

"As long as mankind is made up of independent individuals with free will, there cannot be any social status quo. Men will develop new urges, and these will give rise to new problems, which will require ever new solutions. Human life implies adventure, and there is no adventure without struggles and dangers."

Source : René Jules Dubos (1987). “Mirage of Health: Utopias, Progress, and Biological Change”, p.278, Rutgers University Press

Rene Dubos

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“Songs start with my bringing in the basic riffs for what you might call a verse and a chorus, an A and a B part...whatever. And sometimes a C and even a D. That's kind of the easy, or at least easier part. The hard part is finding that special, perfect way to order things - how many times to do A before B and back and how the second verse differs from the first. That's all we got.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Conservative thinking is a very important part of Republican Party and the Republican Party is very important to the conservative movement. Since the 1960's, the polarization of the two parties and their alignment with essentially liberal and progressive and conservative thinking respectively is one of the big changes and it's made it really hard to separate those two out and so party and ideology are much more intertwined today than they were even 20 years ago, let alone 40 years ago.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“In general, Russia suffers from a frightening poverty in the sphere of facts and a frightening wealth of all types of arguments.”
“My coach confirmed to me my impression that he uses a different measuring stick to evaluate Almunia. For me, this was a huge disappointment. That has forced me to think about my situation. I have to ask myself what is still realistic and possible for me at Arsenal? When Wenger says something like that, it's going to be difficult for me to get back in here. It's very frustrating. When I see the performances on the field, I get angry and I have to clench my fist in my pocket.”

Source : "Lehmann looks destined to go - but not quietly" by Dominic Fifield, www.theguardian.com. December 20, 2007.
“A beach walk is for stretching your legs and your mind, for looking at life with newfound eyes.”

Source : Sandy Gingras (2010). “Walks on the Beach”, p.1, Andrews McMeel Publishing
“New scientific ideas never spring from a communal body, however organized, but rather from the head of an individually inspired researcher who struggles with his problems in lonely thought and unites all his thought on one single point which is his whole world for the moment.”
“The most important thing in skating is finding your center. There is nothing better than Skate Spinner to do this - not even skates!”
“I think anytime you can affect people in general, in a positive way, then you're a lucky individual.”

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