In 15 years we'll have all the sequence, a list of the genes everyone has in common and those that differ among people. We know only something like a tenth of 1 percent of the sequence at the moment.
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And maybe we'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st... STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know if I have a favorite color. KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl. KATE MIDDLETON So, tomorrow, I'm leaving. And I'm not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I'm going to... STEPHEN CHBOSKY The goal in life is not to try and live forever, but to create something that will forever in people... KARON WADDELL Life begins somewhere and ends somewhere with time but to get somewhere with the life you have depen... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH There is no greater glory than to die for love. GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Together they had overcome the daily incomprehension, the instantaneous hatred, the reciprocal nasti... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. S... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON Walter Mitty: To see the world, things dangerous to come to, to see behind walls, draw closer, to fi... JAMES THURBER Sean O'Connell: Sometimes I don't. If I like a moment, for me, personally, I don't like to have the ... JAMES THURBER We can leave a place behind, or we can stay in that place and leave our selfishness (often expressed... JOHN H. GROBERG I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than... NEIL GAIMAN We can take these genes and sequence them, ADOLFO GARCIA I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib... 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It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. Life is short, and that's why, I don't test people; because we all fail tests sometimes, but that is... C. JOYBELL C. Savor the moment. Set a goal that you value and plan the steps to of getting there in a way that you... TERENCE T. GORSKI We should not blame people by the mistakes of others. DANIEL MELGAçO If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever. FRANCINE RIVERS The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS No one should let yesterday use up too much of today. Easy to say, hard to live. ANDREA HAIRSTON It may be the kind where, at the age of thirty, you sit in some bar hating everybody who comes in lo... J.D. SALINGER There was a house at the foot of the tower, close to the thunder of the waves breaking against the c... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Wake up to a brand new day and realize why you woke up to meet the day! Live to the end of another d... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH No, of course not. But surely you know your affair couldn't go on forever." "Forever has no mea... ELLEN HOPKINS I promise myself that I will enjoy every minute of the day that is given me to live. THICH NHAT HANH You can't go back to how things were. How you thought they were. All you really have is...now. JAY ASHER Life is a journey, not a destination. RALPH WALDO EMERSON The Buddha told him, "When we sit, we know we are sitting. When we walk, we know we are walking. Whe... THICH NHAT HANH She plucked the blossoms from the bag and arranged them, one by one, in the water glass on her dress... SARAH JIO She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word. DIANA WYNNE JONES The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a... NEIL GAIMAN What is the Other?" they ask. The Other is the one who taught me whatI should be like, but not ... PAULO COELHO To get over the past, you first have to accept that the past is over. No matter how many times you r... MANDY HALE In a world in which the common rule which binds and regulates what the general masses feel is underm... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Genes are effectively one-dimensional. If you write down the sequence of A, C, G and T, that's k... FRANCIS COLLINS I was suddenly very aware of the fact it was me standing up in that tunnel with the wind over my fac... STEPHEN CHBOSKY The only perspective is to really be there. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I didn't feel like reading that night, so I went downstairs and watched a half-hour long commercial ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Why is England manufacturing bigger and better airplanes and bombs and at the same time churning out... ANNE FRANK Look, my friends!' he called. 'Here's a pretty hobbit-skin to wrap an elven princeling in! If it wer... J.R.R. TOLKIEN Error is far more common than fraud which probably comprises 1 percent or a tenth of a percent of th... WALTER GILBERT It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained. QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and... QUEEN ELIZABETH II My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime. QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have to be seen to be believed. QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughou... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast. 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QUEEN ELIZABETH II The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a nobl... QUEEN ELIZABETH II At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Chr... QUEEN ELIZABETH II For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first. QUEEN ELIZABETH II The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses w... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your s... QUEEN ELIZABETH II Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are g... QUEEN ELIZABETH II We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the man... QUEEN ELIZABETH II Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as... QUEEN ELIZABETH II These wretched babies don't come until they are ready. QUEEN ELIZABETH II
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GILBERT MURRAY Some of the Park City kids said it was the best pipe of the Intermountain series. ANDREW GILBERT He had the run of his life. Smooth and big, with landings that were on the money. ANDREW GILBERT She's been killing it all season and is only getting better. ANDREW GILBERT I first met William McInnes in 1986. ANDREW GILBERT I understand being less sexy than Osama bin Laden, but not less sexy than Carrot Top. That, I find o... GILBERT GOTTFRIED A lot of people can be cheerleaders for songs and go, 'Oh, that's great,' and they don... BRANTLEY GILBERT What time has ever been a simple time for those who are living it? ELIZABETH GILBERT In the modern industrialized Western world, where I come from, the person whom you choose to marry i... ELIZABETH GILBERT In the end, it seems to me that forgiveness may be the only realistic antidote we are offered in lov... ELIZABETH GILBERT Every intimacy carries secreted somewhere below its initial lovely surfaces, the ever-coiled makings... ELIZABETH GILBERT I do forget sometimes how much it means for certain men—for certain people—to be able to provide... ELIZABETH GILBERT My restlessness makes me a far better day-to-day traveler than he will ever be. I am infinitely curi... ELIZABETH GILBERT Because I know something that you don't know. I know that this is the worst experience of your life,... ELIZABETH GILBERT As I got older, I discovered that nothing within me cried out for a baby. My womb did not seem to ha... ELIZABETH GILBERT Then again, you cannot stop the flood of desire as it moves through the world, inappropriate though ... ELIZABETH GILBERT For if there is one thing I have learned over the years about men, it is that feelings of powerlessn... ELIZABETH GILBERT Marriage becomes hard work once you have poured the entirety of your life’s expectations for happi... ELIZABETH GILBERT By unnerving definition, anything that the heart has chosen for its own mysterious reasons it can al... ELIZABETH GILBERT With each reunion (we) had to learn each other all over again. There was always that nervous moment ... ELIZABETH GILBERT every healthy marriage is composed of walls and windows. The windows are the aspects of your relatio... ELIZABETH GILBERT There is no choice more intensely personal, after all, than whom you choose to marry; that choice te... ELIZABETH GILBERT Marriage is those two thousand indistinguishable conversations, chatted over two thousand indistuing... ELIZABETH GILBERT I'd learned enough from life's experiences to understand that destiny's interventions can sometimes ... ELIZABETH GILBERT My love affair with (him) had a wonderful element of romance to it, which I will always cherish. But... ELIZABETH GILBERT Infatuation is not quite the same thing as love; it's more like love's shady second cousin who's alw... ELIZABETH GILBERT Plant an expectation; reap a disappointment." (Quoting an old adage) ELIZABETH GILBERT When you have only two minutes to say good-bye to the person you love most in the world, and you don... ELIZABETH GILBERT A fish and a bird may indeed fall in love, but where shall they live? ELIZABETH GILBERT Real, sane, mature love—the kind that pays the mortgage year after year and picks up the kids afte... ELIZABETH GILBERT The problem, simply put, is that we cannot choose everything simultaneously. So we live in danger of... ELIZABETH GILBERT You can measure the happiness of a marriage by the number of scars that each partner carries on thei... ELIZABETH GILBERT Destiny, I feel, is also a relationship - a play between divine grace and willful self-effort. ELIZABETH GILBERT But at some point you have to make peace with what you were given and if God wanted me to be a shy g... ELIZABETH GILBERT We were thrilled to find this sort of effect and are very interested in investigating it further. AUBREY GILBERT