#cia

Is it absurd to imagine that our social behavior, from amoeba to man, is also planned and dictated, from stored information, by the cells? And that the time has come for men to be entrusted with the task, through heroic efforts, of bringing life to other worlds? ↗

— Albert Claude

#also #behavior #bringing #cells #come

This familiarity with a respected physician and my appreciation of his work, or the tragedy I experienced with the long, tormented agony and death of my mother might have influenced me in wanting to study medicine. It was not the case. ↗

— Albert Claude

#appreciation #case #death #experienced #familiarity

Everybody's looking for the niche to make the difference. Some people think they see the mother lode in the beautiful people, especially the vote of the beautiful women. ↗

— Suzanne Fields

#beautiful people #beautiful women #difference #especially #everybody

Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart. ↗

— Henry Clay

#character #courtesies #deepest #grateful #heart

I think the world is very much embracing this whole concept of musicians going out and playing their instruments and playing music for music as opposed to music that has something to do with some form of image or imagery. ↗

— Les Claypool

#embracing #form #going #i #i think

Thanksgiving is a time when the world gets to see just how blessed and how workable the Christian system is. The emphasis is not on giving or buying, but on being thankful and expressing that appreciation to God and to one another. ↗

— John Clayton

#appreciation #being #blessed #buying #christian

There was no instruction to be thankful that the Christians were special people, chosen people. There was no nationalistic, political or ethnic superiority to be thankful for. ↗

— John Clayton

#chosen #christians #ethnic #instruction #nationalistic

Social Security is a covenant that should not be broken. ↗

— Emanuel Cleaver

#covenant #security #should #social #social security

Grown-up politicians talk to each other across party lines. Over the last few weeks I have had lengthy conversations with Ed Miliband, David Miliband, with Tony Blair, with Peter Mandelson... talking about Europe, talking about political reform. ↗

— Nick Clegg

#across #blair #conversations #david #each

I didn't become leader to transform the Liberal Democrats into an enlarged form of the Electoral Reform Society. It's not the be all and end all for us. There are other very, very key ambitions in politics, not least social mobility and life chances, that I care about as passionately if not more. ↗

— Nick Clegg

#become #care #chances #democrats #electoral