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• What magical trick makes us intelligent? The trick is that there is no trick. The power of intelligence stems from our vast diversity, not from any single, perfect principle.

  Marvin Minsky

  Intelligent, Perfect, Diversity

  Marvin Minsky (1988). “Society Of Mind”, p.308, Simon and Schuster

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• According to Buddhist psychology most of our troubles stem from attachment to things that we mistakenly see as permanent.

  Dalai Lama

  Buddhist, Attachment, Psychology

  Dalai Lama, Jeffrey Hopkins (2007). “How to See Yourself As You Really Are”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• Even if the Bush Administration had flung open the gates to stem-cell research years ago, we would not be at the point of offering treatment today. Christopher Reeve would still have been taken from us. But we would be closer.

  Patti Davis

  Taken, Offering, Cells

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• The possibility of pain is where love stems from

  Matt Haig

  Pain, Possibility

  Matt Haig (2013). “The Humans: A Novel”, p.159, Simon and Schuster

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• My goal was to make New Jersey's state government a model for all other states to emulate, hopefully thereby to stem, or at least slow down, the flow of power to the federal government.

  Charles Edison

  Government, Goal, Flow

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• Perhaps all human progress stems from the tension between two basic drives: to have just what everyone else has and to have what no one has.

  Judith Stone

  Two, Progress, Tension

  Judith Stone (1991). “Light Elements: Essays in Science from Gravity to Levity”, Ballantine Books

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• Don't eat a mushroom stem and see colors, eat the whole bag and see GOD

  Doug Stanhope

  Color, Mushrooms, Bags

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• World conditions challenge us to look beyond the status quo for responses to the pain of our times. We look to powers within as well as powers without. A new, spiritually based social activism is beginning to assert itself. It stems not from hating what is wrong and trying to fight it, but from loving what could be and making the commitment to bring it forth.

  Marianne Williamson

  Pain, Hate, Commitment

  Marianne Williamson (2014). “Healing the Soul of America: Reclaiming Our Voices as Spiritual Citizens”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• I would say that our patients never really despair because of any suffering in itself! Instead, their despair stems in each instance from a doubt as to whether suffering is meaningful. Man is ready and willing to shoulder any suffering as soon and as long as he can see a meaning in it.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Meaningful, Men, Long

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• Polls consistently show that the majority of Americans favour research using embryonic stem cells and yet politicians continue to pander to the outspoken religious minority that is hampering efforts to develop this potentially valuable technology.

  James D. Watson

  Religious, Technology, Cells

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• What then, is correctness of speech but the maintenance of the practice of others, as established by the authority of ancient speakers? But the weaker men are, the more they are troubled by such matters. Their weakness stems from a desire to appear learned, not with a knowledge of things, by which we are edified, but with a knowledge of signs, by which it is difficult not to be puffed up in some way; even a knowledge of things often makes people boastful, unless their necks are held down by the Lord's yoke.

  Saint Augustine

  Men, Practice, People

  "On Christian Doctrine". Book by Saint Augustine, 426 AD.

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• Stem cells are like toenail clippings with a better career plan.

  Scott Adams

  Science, Careers, Cells

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• On every stem, on every leaf,... and at the root of everything that grew, was a professional specialist in the shape of grub, caterpillar, aphis, or other expert, whose business it was to devour that particular part.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Life, Garden, Roots

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• We have a lot to gain through furthering stem cell research, but medical breakthroughs should be fundamentally about saving, not destroying, human life. Therefore, I support stem cell research that does not destroy the embryo.

  Michael Steele

  Cells, Support, Doe

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• To look at any thing,
  If you would know that thing,
  You must look at it long:
  To look at this green and say,
  "I have seen spring in these
  Woods," will not do - you must
  Be the thing you see:
  You must be the dark snakes of
  Stems and ferny plumes of leaves,
  You must enter in
  To the small silences between
  The leaves,
  You must take your time
  And touch the very peace
  They issue from.

  John Moffitt

  Spring, Dark, Snakes

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• For many phenomena, 80% of consequences stem from 20% of the causes.

  Joseph M. Juran

  Causes, Programming, Consequence

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• On turf and curb and bower-roof
  The snow-storm spreads its ivory woof;
  It paves with pearl the garden-walk;
  And lovingly around the tatter'd stalk
  And snivering stem its magic weaves
  A mantle fair as lily-leaves.

  John Townsend Trowbridge

  Garden, Ivory, Snow

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• You'll be dedicated and that's what you should want to be in anything in life - whether it's sports or academics or your relationship. It all stems from finding that fun, that thrill, that excitement.

  Brandi Chastain

  Sports, Fun, Thrill

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• A root, a stem, a leaf, some means of capturing sunlight and air and making food - in sum, a plant. The green substance of this earth, the chlorophyll, is all summed up in the plants. Without them we perish, all of us who are flesh and blood.

  Hal Borland

  Mean, Air, Blood

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• Laura Bush went on national television during the week of my father's funeral and spoke out against embryonic stem cell research, pointing out that where Alzheimer's is concerned, we don't have proof that stem-cell treatment would be effective.

  Patti Davis

  Father, Alzheimer's, Cells

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• To all conservative women out there: If you are so sure the embryo needed for stem cell research are precious human life that can't be destroyed, then implant one in your uterus and bring it to term. That's right, put your cervix where your mouth is.

  Bill Maher

  Cells, Uterus, Research

  Bill Maher (2006). “New Rules: Polite Musings from a Timid Observer”, p.9, Rodale

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• I believe that the horrifying deterioration in the ethical conduct of people today stems from the mechanization and dehumanization of our lives. A disastrous by-product of the development of the scientific and technical mentality. We are guilty. Man grows cold faster than the planet he inhabits.

  Albert Einstein

  Sad, Believe, Men

  letter to Dr. Otto Fullisburger, cited in: Journal of Public Policy & Marketing, p. 75, 2004.

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• In that moment, I could not write anything about flowers because I myself had turned into a flower, I myself had a stem and a lymph.

  Alda Merini

  Flower, Writing, Moments

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• There is only one issue: man's lack of experience in feeling his Divine self and his innate connection with the Divine. All other issues stem from this.

  Lindsay Wagner

  Men, Self, Issues

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

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• The federal and state governments should ban the use of taxpayer funds to support cloning and embryonic stem cell research.

  Sandy Adams

  Government, Cells, Support

  "Sandy Adams, candidate for U.S. House district 24". Interview, dampfang.com. August 18, 2010.

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