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• While nobody has identified any gene for religion, there are certainly some candidate genes that may influence human personality and confer a tendency to religious feelings. Some of the genes likely to be involved are those which control levels of different chemicals called neurotransmitters in the brain.

  Robert Winston

  Religious, Personality, Feelings

  "Why do we believe in God?" by Robert Winston, www.theguardian.com. October 13, 2005.

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• I wish I was born in that era: dancing with Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, going to work at the studio dressed in beautiful pants, head scarves, and sunglasses.

  Catherine Zeta-Jones

  Beautiful, Work, Dancing

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• Looking out over the port of Dover, with the endless steam of boats coming in and out, every British citizen is reminded that belonging here has never been about blood or genes. It's simply about being at home on this discrete island and being aware of the privileges and responsibilities that brings.

  Julian Baggini

  Home, Responsibility, Islands

  "Why the white cliffs of Dover are so special" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. August 19, 2012.

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• I am a goofy person, really. That's where my energy goes, that's how I live my life. The goof gene is very strong inside me, really.

  Devon Bostick

  Strong, Energy, Goofy

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• I think there's no question that Michael Jackson was the foremost entertainer of his generation; perhaps of all time, arguably, taking the skills of a Sammy Davis, Jr., bringing together the street dance of African American urban culture, joining them to the politics of dance, of Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly on that sphere alone.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Thinking, Skills, African American

  Interview with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. June 30, 2009.

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• Like lycanthropy, the nerd gene can skip a generation. My maternal grandfather was a technophile.

  Chris Hardwick

  Nerd, Grandfather, Generations

  "Self-help for nerds: advice from comedian Chris Hardwick". www.wired.com. October 21, 2011.

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• I do not have a bride gene. I haven't been planning a wedding since I was 3. I never put a sheet on my head and pretended that it was a veil.

  Niecy Nash

  Veils, Planning, Sheets

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• i learned that predators don't intentionally choose the weak or old or sick. they kill what they can, which means the slow members of the pack. thus, they strengthen the very gene pool they're feeding from. the threshold for what is weak, old or sick gets raised, and the strength, speed and instincts of new generations of hunters grow. a beautiful, self-perpetuating system where evolution is the antithesis of entropy.

  Craig Clevenger

  Beautiful, Mean, Self

  Craig Clevenger (2005). “The Contortionist's Handbook”

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• I am the drying meadow; you the unspoken apology; he is the fluctuating distance between mother and son; she is the first gesture that creates a quiet that is full enough to make the baby sleep. My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope; make yourself a structure you can live inside. Amen.

  Aimee Bender

  Life, Mother, Baby

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• On any given day, something claims our attention. Anything at all, inconsequential things. A rosebud, a misplaced hat, that sweater we liked as a child, an old Gene Pitney record. A parade of trivia with no place to go. Things that bump around in our consciousness for two or three days then go back to wherever they came from... to darkness. We've got all these wells dug in our hearts. While above the wells, birds flit back and forth.

  Haruki Murakami

  Children, Heart, Two

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• I think there was always some scrawny dreamer sitting at the edge of the firelight, who had the ability to imagine dangers, to look into the future in his imagination and see possibilities, and therefore survived to pass his genes on to the next generation.

  Christopher Moore

  Thinking, Imagination, Dreamer

  Christopher Moore (2009). “The Lust Lizard Of Melancholy Cove: Book 2: Pine Cove Series”, p.186, Hachette UK

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• I lost part of myself to him then, and a soaring sense of freedom revealed that this must have been my purpose from the first: to become a part of Phineas.

  John Knowles

  Desire, Purpose, Firsts

  "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles, (p. 14), 1959.

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• Gene police! You! Out of the pool, now!

  Charles Stross

  Police, Pool

  Charles Stross (2006). “The Atrocity Archives”, p.32, Penguin

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• Grapes are juicy. Strawberries. Oranges. Good pork chops are succulent," said Dusty. "But the word isn't accurately descriptive of a person." Smiling with delight, Ahriman said, "Oh, really, not accurately descriptive? Be careful housepainter. Your genes are showing. What if I were a cannibal?

  Dean Koontz

  Orange, What If, Pork

  Dean Koontz (2007). “False Memory”, p.382, Bantam

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• The male frog in mating season," said Crake, "makes as much noise as it can. The females are attracted to the male frog with the biggest, deepest voice because it suggests a more powerful frog, one with superior genes. Small male frogs—it's been documented—discover if they position themselves in empty drainpipes, the pipe acts as a voice amplifier and the small frog appears much larger than it really is." So?" So that's what art is for the artist, an empty drainpipe. An amplifier. A stab at getting laid.

  Margaret Atwood

  Art, Powerful, Voice

  Margaret Atwood (2004). “Oryx and Crake”, p.168, Anchor

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• How could someone possibly be that beautiful? She wondered for the hundred thousandth time. What higher power orchestrated such a perfect union of genes? Who decided that one single solitary soul deserved skin like that? It was so fundamentally unfair.(Chasing Harry Winston)

  Lauren Weisberger

  Beautiful, Perfect, Soul

  Lauren Weisberger (2009). “Chasing Harry Winston: A Novel”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• He has a calsium deposit on the medulla oblongota of his brain, but he is a brilliant man. This man has a BA, an MA from Havard, and a PhD from Oxford. He's a brilliant man I tell you, Mean Gene.

  Lou Albano

  Mean, Wrestling, Men

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• Fundamentally, we are a product of choice, not nature (genes) or nurture (upbringing, environment).

  Stephen Covey

  Choices, Environment, Nurture

  Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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• We Icelanders are an excellent animal model for humans. This is exactly the way you find common disease genes.

  Kari Stefansson

  Animal, Medicine, Drug

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• Mike [Mann], can you delete an e-mails you may have had with Keith [Trenberth] re AR4? Keith will do likewise...Can you also e-mail Gene and get him to do the same? I don't have his e-mail address...We will be getting Caspar to do likewise.

  Phil Jones

  Energy, Keith, Addresses

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• What really happens is that the gene pool becomes filled with genes that influence bodies in such a way that they behave 'as if' they made complex, if unconscious, cost/benefit calculations

  Richard Dawkins

  Cost, Benefits, Body

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• Of course, I have Gene Roddenberry to thank for the creation of Barclay.

  Dwight Schultz

  Creation, Courses

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• Is he a dread genetic determinist, or a dread environmental determinist? He is neither, of course, for both these species of bogeyman are as mythical as werewolves. By increasing the information we have about the various causes of the constraints that limit our current opportunities, he has increased our powers to avoid what we want to avoid, prevent what we want to prevent. Knowledge of the roles of our genes, and the genes of the other species around us, is not the enemy of human freedom, but one of its best friends.

  Daniel Dennett

  Opportunity, Enemy, Environmental

  Daniel C. Dennett (2004). “Freedom Evolves”, p.221, Penguin UK

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• Mr L Prosser was, as they say, only human. In other words he was a carbon-based life form descended from an ape. More specifically he was forty, fat and shabby and worked for the local council. Curiously enough, though he didn't know it, he was also a direct male-line descendant of Genghis Khan, though intervening generations and racial mixing had so juggled his genes that he had no discernible Mongoloid characteristics, and the only vestiges left in Mr L Prosser of his mighty ancestry were a pronounced stoutness about the tum and a predilection for little fur hats.

  Douglas Adams

  Mixing, Males, Generations

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• The fact that Gene Simmon's son is a manga-ka disturbs me more than whether he's really copying or not.

  Tite Kubo

  Son, Copying, Facts

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