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"It now seems very likely that many of the 64 triplets, possibly most of them, may code one amino acid or another, and that in general several distinct triplets may code one amino acid."

"By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox."

"Now I say I'm a diarist with an explanation I'll get back to you on. Someday I may try and write in memoir form."

"The Capitol was an occasion where you arrive at a sign in the road that says you have arrived at a place you may not have expected to be, but you know how you got here: Next!"

"Every one of our passions and affections hath its natural stint and bound, which may easily be exceeded; whereas our enjoyments can possibly be but in a determinate measure and degree."

"Someday I suspect, when Jesus has definitely got me for a sunbeam, my works may be adequately assessed."
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"When we started I wasn't the singer. I was the drunk rhythm guitarist who wrote all these weird songs."

"I'm not going to worry about the Cure slipping down into the second division; it doesn't bother me because I never expected to be in the first division anyway."

"I became an adult in an extreme way. I was recently sorting some old photographs and I found another."

"Like I can't cry for myself so I will let this song take all of the things inside I can't let anyone else see and offer it up, as if the sound were some kind of god, and my pain is some kind of sacrifice."

"I hardly ever listen to any of our old stuff now. Once the songs have been recorded and put on to vinyl they become someone else's entertainment, not mine."

"I do a job I really, really love and I kind of have fun with. People think you can't be grown up unless you're moaning about your job."

"Sometimes I'll get to the end of a song, open my eyes and there's all these faces peering at me. It's quite horrifying."

"I never answer if someone knocks on my door and only the band and my manager have my phone number. In any case my phone doesn't ring so I never notice it. I occasionally just walk past and pick it up to see if anyone's there."

"There's no hope of me becoming completely relaxed on stage. If I did, I'd sit down and doze off."
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