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" Cell culture is a little like gardening. You sit and you look at cells, and then you see something and say, 'You know, that doesn't look right'. "

Siddhartha Mukherjee

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" The space and light up there in Norfolk is wonderfully peaceful. I find myself doing funny things like gardening, and cooking, which I rarely do in London. "

" Living in New York after 14 years, I'm such an outdoors kind of person. I love gardening and building things. I like restoring old furniture. "

" I am a scientist and I am a physician. So I write papers. "

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" Mary Lasker was an entrepreneur; she was a socialite. She was kind of a legendary networker. She became interested in saying, 'Well, you know, if these diseases don't have political support we'll never conquer them.' And she made, really, cancer her special cause. "

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" I'm human, we all are - all doctors are - and grieving is a natural part of medicine. As a doctor, grieving is a natural part of medicine. If you deny that, again, you'd get into this trap of curing and victory. I think grief is very important. "

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" I read, go for walks and I love to garden. My hands are such a mess. People think I should have movie star hands, but they're just gardening ones. Always slightly grubby and with a bit of dirt under the fingernails. "

" The cottage garden; most for use designed, Yet not of beauty destitute. "

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" Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent. "

" One of the least arduous but most productive of gardening jobs, the magic of deadheading never fails to delight me. It was a revelation when the principle was explained to me: that flowers are the attempt by the plant to reproduce itself. So if you cut the heads off before the flower turns into seeds, the plant will continue to flower. "

" Unlike other diseases, the vulnerability to cancer lies in ourselves. We always thought of disease as exogenous, but research into cancer has turned that idea on its head - as long as we live, grow, age, there will be cancer. "

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" Cancer is not just a dividing cell. It's a complex disease: It invades, it metastasizes, it evades the immune system. "

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" I'm not surfing much anymore, but I love hiking and gardening, and I'm always wearing a hat and sunblock. "

" What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered. "

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" Gardening is not my thing. You're digging in the dirt, and then a couple of months later, something happens. "

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" Gardening is learning, learning, learning. That's the fun of them. You're always learning. "

" A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it. "

" Every time I imagine a garden in an architectural setting, it turns into a magical place. I think of gardens I have seen, that I believe I have seen, that I long to see, surrounded by simple walls, columns, arcades or the facades of buildings - sheltered places of great intimacy where I want to stay for a long time. "

" There is some risk to increase birth defects if you do a lot of outdoor gardening when you are pregnant. That can increase rates of toxoplasmosis. "

" I think the cardinal rule of learning to write is learning to read first. I learned to write by learning to read. "

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" I grew up at my grandmother's house, and she had a beautiful garden. I used to hate mowing the lawn and weeding, which is what you do when you're a kid. I loathe gardening, but I love gardens, and I have two beautiful gardens. "

" Exercise your creative muscles all the time, either through classes or through other artistic avenues like painting or dancing or even gardening, staying active and being creative so that when opportunities do come up, you are in a position to take advantage of them. "

" Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow. "

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" The most lasting and pure gladness comes to me from my gardens. "

" I believe the biggest breakthroughs on cancer could come from brilliant researchers based in India. "

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" I like to encourage people interested in gardening or planting to begin with a simple herb garden. Even if you live in a small apartment, you can have some herb pots. "

" I have an armchair interest in gardening, but I don't like to get my knees dirty. I don't have a garden. "

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" A brier rose whose buds yield fragrant harvest for the honey bee. "

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" I think the way we think about cancer, the way we treat cancer, has dramatically changed in the last century. There is an enormous amount of options that a physician can provide today, right down from curing patients, treating patients or providing patients with psychic solace or pain relief. "

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