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• Pearl Harbor was the defining event in my life. It shaped who I am, and all of my hang-ups and my drives, I think, stem from that.

  David Suzuki

  Thinking, Who I Am, Events

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• The ego must be developed, not for its own sake, but because it is needed by society. If you are only interested in self-realization then you cannot make a good painting. To do this you have to have thought about forming, and about how ideas of forming stem from history.

  Joseph Beuys

  Self, Ideas, Ego

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• The lotus' stem is as long as the depth of water,
  So men's height is just as great as their inner strength.

  Thiruvalluvar

  Men, Long, Water

  "Tirukkural". Book by Thiruvalluvar, 1840.

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• Many of the insights of the saint stem from his experience as a sinner.

  Eric Hoffer

  Experience, Saint, Literature

  "The Passionate State of Mind".

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• In Britain, like most of the developed world, stem-cell research is regarded as a great opportunity. America will be left behind if it doesn't change policy.

  Stephen Hawking

  Opportunity, Cells, America

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• Most fear stems from sin; to limit one's sins, one must assuredly limit one's fear, thereby bringing more peace to one's spirit.

  Marvin Gaye

  Fear, Limits, Spirit

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• Imitation, if it is not forgery, is a fine thing. It stems from a generous impulse, and a realistic sense of what can and cannot be done.

  James Fenton

  Done, Realistic, Imitation

  The Independent on Sunday, December 16, 1990.

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• Part of our western outlook stems from the scientific attitude and its method of isolating the parts of a phenomenon in order to analyze them.

  Arthur Erickson

  Attitude, Artist, Order

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• If people think that you're throwing babies out, dissecting children, to do stem-cell research, I'm not for that.

  Elizabeth Edwards

  Baby, Children, Thinking

  "Back on trail, Elizabeth Edwards pushes stem-cell funding", www.cnn.com. March 26, 2007.

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• I think that we're foolhardy to not be engaging in federal funding of stem-cell research in the most aggressive way we possibly can.

  Elizabeth Edwards

  Thinking, Cells, Research

  "Back on trail, Elizabeth Edwards pushes stem-cell funding". www.cnn.com. March 26, 2007.

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• The refusal to acknowledge the scientific value of embryonic stem cell research is one more tragic misstep.

  Lois Capps

  Cells, Research, Refusal

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• If we don't somehow stem the tide of childhood obesity, we're going to have a huge problem.

  Lance Armstrong

  Childhood, Tides, Problem

  Interview with Rebecca Zamon, www.huffingtonpost.ca. March 28, 2012.

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• From its earliest days, stem cell research has been important to the people of Wisconsin.

  Ron Kind

  Cells, People, Important

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• Abortion and racism are both symptoms of a fundamental human error. The error is thinking that when someone stands in the way of our wants, we can justify getting that person out of our lives. Abortion and racism stem from the same poisonous root, selfishness.

  Alveda King

  Thinking, Errors, Roots

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• In fact when you combine stem cell technology with the technology known as tissue engineering you can actually grow up entire organs, so as you suggest that sometime in the future you get in an auto accident and lose your kidney, we'd simply take a few skin cells and grow you up a new kidney. In fact this has already been done.

  Robert Lanza

  Growing Up, Technology, Cells

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• All the traditional STEM fields, the science, technology, engineering, and math fields, are stoked when you dream big in an agency such as NASA.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Dream, Math, Technology

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• Now I see why reading was illegal for black people during slavery. I discover that I think in words. The more words I know, the more things I can think about. My vocab and thoughts grow together like the stem and petals of a flower. Reading was illegal because if you limit someone's vocab, you limit their thoughts. They can't even think of freedom because they don't have the language to.

  M. K. Asante

  Flower, Reading, Thinking

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• First and foremost, I'm a feminist. And basically that stems from a strong belief that all people and creatures deserve equal opportunity, rights and respect.

  Kathy Najimy

  Strong, Opportunity, Rights

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

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• If you take any flower you please and look it over and turn it about and smell it and feel it and try to find out all its little secrets, not of flower only but of leaf, bud and stem as well, you will discover many wonderful things. This is how you make friends with plants, and very good friends you will find them to the end of our lives.

  Gertrude Jekyll

  Flower, Good Friend, Smell

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• Christianity, Judaism, and Islam all stem from the same Abrahamic roots. All three reject terrorism.

  H. John Poole

  Roots, Islam, Three

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• Conservatives and companies condoned Rush Limbaugh's 2006 attacks on Michael J. Fox for campaigning about stem cell research.

  Christine Pelosi

  Cells, Research, Foxes

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• I'd like to see much more understanding of emotional issues around hurt, abandonment, disappointment, longing, failure and shame, where they stem from and how they drive people and policies brought into public discourse.

  Susie Orbach

  Hurt, Disappointment, Emotional

  "Britain's intellectuals: leading thinkers have their say" by Alain de Botton, AC Grayling, Susie Orbach, Paul Gilroy, Will Self, Mary Beard, Brian Cox, Lionel Shriver, James Lovelock and Lisa Jardine, www.theguardian.com. May 7, 2011.

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• Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.

  Anais Nin

  Life, Motivational, Inspiring

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• All of the significant art of today stems from Conceptual art. This includes the art of installation, political, feminist and socially directed art.

  Sol LeWitt

  Art, Feminist, Political

  "50 Art Ideas You Really Need to Know" by Susie Hodge, Quercus, (p. 270), September 29, 2011.

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• We know that in 2001 it was believed 78 stem cell lines existed. But now we know there are only 22 that are viable, and they have been contaminated with mouse stem cells.

  Russ Carnahan

  Cells, Lines, Stem Cell

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