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Basic human contact - the meeting of eyes, the exchanging of words - is to the psyche what oxygen is to the brain. If you're feeling abandoned by the world, interact with anyone you can. ↗

— Martha Beck

#anyone #basic #brain #contact #exchanging

In one century, we've added 28 years to our average life span - a change so rapid that our brains couldn't possibly have evolved to accommodate it. ↗

— Martha Beck

#added #average #brains #century #change

The Treatise tries to analyze not only modern Western families, but also those in other cultures and the changes in family structure during the past several centuries. ↗

— Gary Becker

#analyze #centuries #changes #cultures #during

I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them. ↗

— Samuel Beckett

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When you have kids you do grow up. I have just started realising it now-it changes the world, having children. ↗

— David Beckham

#children #grow #grow up #having #having children

It is a shock to us in the twentieth century to discover, from observations science has made, that the fundamental mechanisms of life cannot be ascribed to natural selection, and therefore were designed. But we must deal with our shock as best we can and go on. ↗

— Michael Behe

#best #cannot #century #deal #designed

I think that people need to have the courage of their convictions and not be trying to fool people into thinking that they've changed overnight. ↗

— Chris Bell

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What's weird is that I work with these directors and then I start channeling them. I kind of turn into them a bit - which is cool when you're working with Clint Eastwood. ↗

— Jamie Bell

#channeling #clint #clint eastwood #cool #directors

It is difficult for me to believe that quantum mechanics, working very well for currently practical set-ups, will nevertheless fail badly with improvements in counter efficiency. ↗

— John S. Bell

#believe #counter #currently #difficult #efficiency

Yes, my life is a life of combat; I can say that this has never stopped for a single instant. It is a combat that started for me at the age of 16. I'm 90 years old now, and my motivation hasn't changed; it's the same fervour that drives me. ↗

— Ahmed Ben Bella

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