I was ripped from my body, I was less than spirit, less than the meanest ghost . . . but still, I was alive.

While the Environmental Genome Project does not seek to assign allele frequencies, we are aware of the importance of accurate allele frequency estimates for future epidemiologic studies and the large sample sizes such estimates will require.

Samuel Wilson

What a familiarity with the construction of Turing test bots had begun to show me was that we fail - again and again- to actually be human with other humans, so maddeningly much of the time.

Brian Christian

Every man I meet is in some way my superior.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The view is endlessly fulfilling. It is like the answer to a lifetime of questions and vague cravings.

Don DeLillo

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.

William James

Nothing happens by chance, my friend... No such thing as luck. A meaning behind every little thing, and such a meaning behind this. Part for you, part for me, may not see it all real clear right now, but we will, before long.

Richard Bach, Nothing by Chance:

Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.

Charles Caleb Colton

I began to speak well at a very advanced age - 15, 16, 17 years old. It was psychological: the trauma of war, my family and growing up on my own. I was more or less a street kid.

Roberto Cavalli

The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.

Deepak Chopra

It seems to me the Washington Monument is a symbol of America's power. It has been the symbol of our great nation. We look at the symbol and we say 'this is one nation under God.'

Pat Robertson

The world is a different place in this new century, [...]. And we are a different people. My visions still come but no one listens any longer to what they tell us, what they warn us. I knew even as a young woman that destruction bred on the horizon. [...] War touches everyone, and windigos spring from the earth.

Joseph Boyden

Garden as though you will live forever.

William Kent