Quote by Lewis Thomas
Doctors, dressed up in one professional costume or another, have b

Doctors, dressed up in one professional costume or another, have been in busy practice since the earliest records of every culture on earth. It is hard to think of a more dependable or enduring occupation, harder still to imagine any future events leading to its extinction. – Lewis Thomas

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Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind. – Lewis Thomas

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I wont compare ants and people, but ants give us a useful model of how single members of a community can become so organized that they end up resembling, in effect, one big collective brain. Our own exploding population and communication technology are leading us that way. – Lewis Thomas

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Survival, in the cool economics of biology, means simply the persistence of ones own genes in the generations to follow. – Lewis Thomas

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If my future were determined just by my performance on a standardized test, I wouldnt be here. I guarantee you that. – Michelle Obama

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I think in the future we need to look at our youth department to provide more players for the first team think it is important for a club to have a good amount of players that have roots with the club and region. – Arsene Wenger

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Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature. – Walter Savage Landor

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I think my view is that whenever you project into the future youre never likely to be accurate in the details, or the paraphernalia and style. Its in the spirit of it. – Stephen Fry

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Our thoughts take the wildest flight: Even at the moment when they should arrange themselves in thoughtful order. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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My grandfather had two boys, my uncle had three boys, my dad had me and my two brothers, each of my brothers have had two boys. Then something happened with the chromosomal experiment and suddenly Ive got three girls. – Greg Kinnear

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A man who was fond of wine was offered some grapes at dessert after dinner. “Much obliged,” said he, pushing the plate aside; “I am not accustomed to take my wine in pills.” – Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, A Handbook of Gastronomy (Physiologie du goût), 1825,

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