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"In the first place, Descartes stands for the most explicit and uncompromising dualism between mind and matter."

"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe."

"A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think."

"I think at the point when they were first starting to talk about a movie, it was a little bit different back then."

"Then when I got to Hollywood, the first musical I did was Festival in 1977."

"I had deeper, more reflective songs on the first album."
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"I am the son of a small and far-away nation and the other laureates have all come from different countries from all over the world and we all were equally received here with signs of sympathy."

"This oxidation of hydrogen in stages seems to be one of the basic principles of biological oxidation."

"A living cell requires energy not only for all its functions, but also for the maintenance of its structure."

"Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought."

"The real scientist is ready to bear privation and, if need be, starvation rather than let anyone dictate to him which direction his work must take."

"So I set out to study the oxidation system in the potato, which, if damaged, causes the plant to turn brown. I did this in the hope of discovering, through these studies, the key to the understanding of adrenal function."

"Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen, and thinking what nobody has thought."

"Investigations during the last few decades have brought hydrogen instead of carbon, and instead of CO2 water, the mother of all life, into the foreground."
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