"If our society continues to support basic research on how living organisms function, it is likely that my great grandchildren will be spared the agony of losing family members to most types of cancer."

Family, Society, Cancer, Living

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"If our society continues to support basic research on how living organisms function, it is likely that my great grandchildren will be spared the agony of losing family members to most types of cancer."

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"Big Brother is watching you."

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"Never give up your wife, husband, children and families. Believe that people can change. Give others opportunity to change."

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"It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor."

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"Blessed is the womb that born you."

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"Until now, you have always lived your life alone. Every decision you've made has been for you and you alone. Now, and for the rest of your days, your life will be tied to another's. Every decision you make will be for both of you. What one does affects the other. You are a family, a team inseparable and unbreakable."

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"A rubber plant is just about the ideal family."

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"Father, I know you will hear me, I will speak."

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"When we sat down on the couch again, you curled up against my side, like you used to when you were a tod."

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"Children are angels."

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"I was sixteen and my mother was about to throw me out of the house forever, for breaking a very big rule, even bigger than the forbidden books. The rule was not just No Sex, but definitely No Sex With Your Own Sex."

Jeanette Winterson, British Novelist

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"Family trips to Yellowstone and to what are now national parks in Southern Utah, driving the primitive roads and cars of that day, were real adventures."

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"A painstaking course in qualitative and quantitative analysis by John Wing gave me an appreciation of the need for, and beauty of, accurate measurement."

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"During my early years at Minnesota I conducted an evening enzyme seminar."

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"This led to the discovery that long chain fatty acids would remarkably stabilize serum albumin to heat denaturation, and would even reverse the denaturation by heat or concentrated urea solutions."

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"It wasn't until late high school and early college that I gained enough size and skill to make me welcome on intramural basketball teams."

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"Mountain hikes instilled in me a life-long urge to get to the top of any inviting summit or peak."

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"An unexpected benefit of my career in biochemistry has been travel."

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