"People are not the only interesting organism on earth. From the point of view of scientific or commercial value, there are lots of interesting organisms."

People, Earth, Value

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"People are not the only interesting organism on earth. From the point of view of scientific or commercial value, there are lots of interesting organisms."

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"With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing."

Georg C. Lichtenberg, German Physicist

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"Clinton... believes that the Washington Press Corps is so out of touch that it is absolutely inconceivable that reporters would understand the issues that people are really dealing with in their lives."

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"There are horrible people who, instead of solving a problem, tangle it up and make it harder to solve for anyone who wants to deal with it. Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all."

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"Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them."

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"A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people."

Will Rogers, American Actor

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"A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other."

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"This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance."

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"In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing."

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"I also found out that I liked biochemical research and that I could do it."

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