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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It is only when you watch the dense mass of thousands of ants, crowded together around the Hill, blackening the ground, that you begin to see the whole beast, and now you observe it thinking, planning, calculating. It is an intelligence, a kind of live computer, with crawling bits for its wits. – Lewis Thomas

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Intelligence
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A multitude of bees can tell the time of day, calculate the geometry of the suns position, argue about the best location for the next swarm. Bees do a lot of close observing of other bees maybe they know what follows stinging and do it anyway. – Lewis Thomas

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best
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The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers. – Lewis Thomas

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Poetry
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Platos philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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Future

When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness. – Alexis de Tocqueville

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Future

I have a lot of sympathy for young people because I realize how disturbed I was. How would I deal with life in the future? What would I do for a living? – Clyde Tombaugh

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Future

The impressions of the spriritual experiences gave my future life its form and content. – Gustav Mahler

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Future

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I hope I am remembered by my children as a good father. – Orson Scott Card

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Having too many things is a burden to the soul, an insult to the earth, and an obstacle course to our spiritual well-being. – Terri Guillemets, “At home,” 2005

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Clutter

And if people come up and say they like the movies youre in, its a great compliment. – Jason Statham

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movies

Theres a lot of great people out here, I just appreciate it and hope everybody has had fun because Ive enjoyed my ride. – Fuzzy Zoeller

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Hope