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At this early stage in our evolution, now through our infancy and

At this early stage in our evolution, now through our infancy and into our childhood and then, with luck, our growing up, what our species needs most of all, right now, is simply a future. – Lewis Thomas

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The dilemma of modern medicine, and the underlying central flaw in medical education and, most of all, in the training of interns, is the irresistible drive to do something, anything. It is expected by patients and too often agreed to by their doctors, in the face of ignorance. – 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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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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So someday in the near future hopefully rather than having a foot or a leg amputated well just give you an injection of the cells and restore the blood flow. Weve also created entire tubes of red blood cells from scratch in the laboratory. So there are a lot of exciting things in the pipeline. – Robert Lanza

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My theme is going to be: Together we can win the future. The right policies lead to the right results. And Im going to argue that President Obama will lose the future because the wrong policies lead to the wrong results. – Newt Gingrich

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While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future. – Ronald Reagan

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The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now. – James A. Baldwin

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It takes great skill to tell a compelling story in under 60 seconds. These five directors have mastered the format, using their talent, craft and imagination to provide us with some of the most innovative filmmaking out there today. – Michael Apted

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On the other hand, when I give it closer thought, I realize Im not enough of a dictator to conduct an orchestra because it requires a pretty awful person. When you read these biographies of famous conductors, they are all awful people who fail in their private relationships. – Eberhard Weber

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If its total freedom, I guess the ultimate thing you can go into is total silence between the audience and performer, with the performer projecting something he doesnt even have to play. – Alice Cooper

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My dad was a bartender. My mom was a cashier, a maid and a stock clerk at K-Mart. They never made it big. They were never rich. And yet they were successful. Because just a few decades removed from hopelessness, they made possible for us all the things that had been impossible for them. – Marco Rubio

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