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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."
"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."
"Every word or concept, clear as it may seem to be, has only a limited range of applicability."
"I've been taking batting practice in my barn where nobody can see me, so I may be better than anyone thinks."
"Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while."
May,
"Let it them be put into any clean oven vessel of china or stoneware which should be wider at the top than at the bottom. so that there may be the largest surface above to favor the evaporation."
May,
"It is conceivable that what is unified form to the author or composer may of necessity be formless to his audience."
"Sin recognized but that may keep us humble, But oh, it keeps us nasty."
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"And how can poetry stand up against its new conditions? Its position is perfectly precarious."
"For no art and no religion is possible until we make allowances, until we manage to keep quiet the enfant terrible of logic that plays havoc with the other faculties."
"It is a miracle of harmony, of the adaptation of the free inner life to the outward necessity of things."
"When critics are waiting to pounce upon poetic style on exactly the same grounds as if it were prose, the poets tremble."
"Or he can work it out as a metrical and formal exercise, but he will be disappointed in its content. The New Year's prospect fairly chills his daunting breast."
"Now between the meanings of words and their sounds there is ordinarily no discoverable relation except one of accident; and it is therefore miraculous, to the mystic, when words which make sense can also make a uniform objective structure of accents and rhymes."
"Till now poets were privileged to insert a certain proportion of nonsense - very far in excess of one-half of one per cent - into their otherwise sober documents."
"He can develop sense and style, in the manner of distinguished modern prose, in which event he may be sure that the result will not fall into any objective form."
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