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" We live in a dancing matrix of viruses; they dart, rather like bees, from organism to organism, from plant to insect to mammal to me and back again, and into the sea, tugging along pieces of this genome, strings of genes from that, transplanting grafts of DNA, passing around heredity as though at a great party. "

Lewis Thomas

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" I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom. "

" It was great. I mean, it's a blast directing underwater stuff. "

" As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously. "

" We can take some gratification at having come a certain distance in just a few thousand years of our existence as language users, but it should be a deeper satisfaction, even an exhilaration, to recognize that we have such a distance still to go. "

Lewis Thomas

Satisfaction

Distance

" It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am. "

" I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen. "

" See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little. "

" Pizza is a great segue into unfamiliar flavors - plus, you can pile on the veggies. "

" I have known plenty of people who, in their later years, had the energy of children and the kind of curiosity and fascination with things like little children. I think we can keep that, and I think it's important to keep that part of staying young. But I also think it's great fun growing old. "

" Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness. "

" I have talked with great men, and I do not see how they differ from others. "

" The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live. "

" In real life, if I were firing you, I'd tell you what a great job you did, how fantastic you are, and how you can do better someplace else. If somebody steals, that's different, but generally speaking, you want to let them down as lightly as possible. It's not a very pleasant thing. I don't like firing people. "

" A man must live like a great brilliant flame and burn as brightly as he can. In the end he burns out. But this is far better than a mean little flame. "

" Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions. "

" 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. "

" The outstanding truths of life, the great and unquestioned phenomena of society, are not to be argued away as myths and vagaries when they do not fit within our little moulds. If necessary, we must remake the moulds. "

" Working hard is great, being lazy sometimes is great, but failed potential is the worst. "

" Even in times of great sadness, there are always moments where we crack up. "

" Shave off your beard and wear a dress. You would be a great female impersonator. "

" Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them. "

" Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it. "

" Going to the gym is great for your body, but it's also great for your mind. "

" I've gotten to travel all over the world and meet all kinds of people and do all kinds of great things, so it's, like, surreal. It just lets you know how time flies, especially when you're having fun. It seems like time keeps going by faster as I get older. "

" When you get to know a lot of people, you make a great discovery. You find that no one group has a monopoly on looks, brains, goodness or anything else. It takes all the people - black and white, Catholic, Jewish and Protestant, recent immigrants and Mayflower descendants - to make up America. "

" Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons. "

" My child, you are going to be a great king; do not imitate me in the taste I have had for building, or in that I have had for war; try, on the contrary, to be at peace with your neighbors. "

Louis XIV

War

Peace