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• If one stretches out the DNA contained in the nucleus of a human cell, one obtains a two-yard-long thread that is only ten atoms wide. This thread is a billion times longer than its own width. Relatively speaking, it is as if your little finger stretched from Paris to Los Angeles.

  Jeremy Narby

  Cells, Two, Paris

  Jeremy Narby (1999). “The Cosmic Serpent”, p.71, Penguin

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• Particles of raw inspiration sleet through the universe all the time. Every once in a while one of them hits a receptive mind, which then invents DNA or the flute sonata form or a way of making light bulbs wear out in half the time. But most of them miss. Most people go through their lives without being hit by even one.

  Terry Pratchett

  Inspiration, Light, People

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• It is not enough to say we were born to be Republicans, it's more precise to say Republicanism is part of our DNA.

  Dolours Price

  Republican, Enough, Born

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• My father always says that heroism is in the Pashtun DNA.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Father, Heroism, Pashtuns

  "Malala: remember the young girl behind the public persona" by Catherine Bennett, www.theguardian.com. October 13, 2013.

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• A bolt of warmth, fierce with joy and pride and gratitude, flashed through me like sudden lightning. I don't care about whose DNA has recombined with whose. When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching-they are your family. And they were my heroes.

  Jim Butcher

  Gratitude, Courage, Hero

  Jim Butcher (2007). “Proven Guilty: A Novel Of the Dresden Files”, p.304, Penguin

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• There's white racist DNA running through the synapses of his or her brain tissue. They will kill their own kind, defend the enemies of their kind or anyone who is perceived to be the enemy of the milky white way of life.

  Jeremiah Wright

  Running, White, Racism

  "Wright: We need control". Jeremiah Wright's speech at Washington’s Florida Avenue Baptist Church, www.politico.com. July 8, 2012.

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• I used to be pro-choice."..."I was once pro-choice and the thing that changed my mind was, I read my husband's biology books, medical books, and what I learned . . . At the moment of conception, a life starts. And this life has its own unique set of DNA, which contains a blueprint for the whole genetic makeup. The sex is determined. We know there's a life because it's growing and changing.

  Kathy Ireland

  Sex, Husband, Book

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• There are many ways of casting molecular spells using DNA. What we really want to do in the end is learn how to program self-assembly so that we can build anything.

  Paul W. K. Rothemund

  Technology, Self, Want

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• When the human body is put under exceptional strain, a range of dormant genes in the DNA are expressed and extraordinary physiological processes are activated.

  K. Anders Ericsson

  Work Ethic, Body, Ethics

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• You're not an African because you're born in Africa. You're an African because Africa is born in you. It's in your genes.... your DNA....your entire biological make up. Whether you like it or not, that's the way it is. However, if you were to embrace this truth with open arms....my, my, my....what a wonderful thing.

  Marimba Ani

  Arms, Way, Wonderful

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• Every now and then, you find a book that feels like it was keyed to your DNA.

  Alexander Chee

  Book, Now And Then, Feels

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• Family is not always the people with whom you share DNA. Sometimes, family is the person who fights the hardest for your happiness.

  Cassia Leo

  Tattoo, Fighting, People

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• Books help to form us. If you cut me open, you will find volume after volume, page after page, the contents of every one I have ever read, somehow transmuted and transformed into me just as my genes and the soul within me make me uniquely me, so I am the unique sum of the books I have read. I am my literary DNA.

  Susan Hill

  Book, Cutting, Unique

  FaceBook post by Susan Hill from Apr 01, 2013

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• If I ever really felt depressed, I would just start putting on all my old records that I played as a kid, because the whole thing that really lifted me then still lifted me during those other times. It was good medicine for me, and it still does that for me when I put something on. Isn't it wonderful that we've got all that good medicine? I think it's got to be all part of our DNA, this mass communication through music. That's what it is. It's got to be, hasn't it? Music is the one thing that has been consistently there for me. It hasn't let me down.

  Jimmy Page

  Communication, Kids, Thinking

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• The information contained in an English sentence or computer software does not derive from the chemistry of the ink or the physics of magnetism, but from a source extrinsic to physics and chemistry altogether. Indeed, in both cases, the message transcends the properties of the medium. The information in DNA also transcends the properties of its material medium.

  Stephen C. Meyer

  Ink, Doe, Information

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• We will hire someone with less experience, less education, and less expertise, than someone who has more of those things and has a rotten attitude. Because we can train people. We can teach people how to lead. We can teach people how to provide customer service. But we can't change their DNA.

  Herb Kelleher

  Attitude, People, Rotten

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• Rather than believe that Watson and Crick made the DNA structure, I would rather stress that the structure made Watson and Crick.

  Francis Crick

  Stress, Believe, Structure

  "What Mad Pursuit". Book by Francis Crick, 1988.

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• It's not a great song unless it makes your DNA remember Eden and your spirit long for Home.

  Mark Lowry

  Song, Home, Eden

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• If you are wasting time and energy trying to be as much like everyone else as you can, you are throwing away something precious: your individuality. When you embrace your difference, your DNA, your look or heritage or religion or your unusual name, that’s when you start to shine.

  Bethenny Frankel

  Names, Differences, Shining

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• All of today's DNA, strung through all the cells of the earth, is simply an extension and elaboration of [the] first molecule.

  Lewis Thomas

  Science, Cells, Simplicity

  Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

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• We must infer that a plant or animal of any species, is made up of special units, in all of which there dwells the intrinsic aptitude to aggregate into the form of that species: just as in the atoms of a salt, there dwells the intrinsic aptitude to crystallize in a particular way.‎

  Herbert Spencer

  Animal, Special, Atoms

  Herbert Spencer (1864). “The Principles of Biology”, p.181

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• There are as many atoms in each molecule of your DNA as there are stars in the typical galaxy. This is true for dogs, and bears, and every living thing. We are, each of us, a little universe.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Dog, Stars, Typical

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• I think there's such a thing as a performance gene. If it's in your DNA it needs to come out. For me, it originally came out through music, then segued into acting and came out through there. I always needed to get up and perform.

  Cillian Murphy

  Thinking, Acting, Needs

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There's a real sense of fighting and destruction in our DNA that we don't get in touch with.

  Joel Edgerton

  Real, Fighting, Destruction

  "Can Warrior pack a punch in the UK?" by Genevieve Hassan, www.bbc.com. September 21, 2011.

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• It's important to celebrate the monogram. It's the DNA of Vuitton. I think - I hope - there is an interest in the philosophy and culture of the Vuitton name. It's quite coherent and intellectual, and the products are great. These are things you will want to pass on - things you treasure.

  Delphine Arnault

  Philosophy, Thinking, Names

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