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It is from the progeny of this parent cell that we all take our lo

It is from the progeny of this parent cell that we all take our looks we still share genes around, and the resemblance of the enzymes of grasses to those of whales is in fact a family resemblance. – Lewis Thomas

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Sometimes you get a glimpse of a semicolon coming, a few lines farther on, and it is like climbing a steep path through woods and seeing a wooden bench just at a bend in the road ahead, a place where you can expect to sit for a moment, catching your breath. – Lewis Thomas

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Grammar
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The central task of science is to arrive, stage by stage, at a clearer comprehension of nature, but this does not at all mean, as it is sometimes claimed to mean, a search for mastery over nature. – Lewis Thomas

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Science
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Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into war, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves, engage in child labour, exchange information ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television. – Lewis Thomas

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War
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A man ought to live so that everybody knows he is a Christian… and most of all, his family ought to know. – Dwight L. Moody

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As they say in Italy, Italians were eating with a knife and fork when the French were still eating each other. The Medici family had to bring their Tuscan cooks up there so they could make something edible. – Mario Batali

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My priorities are always going to be my husband and my family now. Thats a huge, huge thing. – Gwen Stefani

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The family is the school of duties – founded on love. – Felix Adler

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The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation form their purposes. – Karl Von Clausewitz

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Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love. – Mel Brooks

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