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Humans are something very different from animals, and the numbers required to get cloning to work in animals are completely prohibitory with humans.

Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

My work is on the one hand laboured, and on the other completely happenstance and intuitive.

Ellen Gallagher

The work of Nigeria is not complete for as long as there is any one Nigerian who goes to bed on empty stomach.

Ibrahim Babangida

As an actress, if you find inspiration through my work, then my job is complete.

Masiela Lusha

I detest self-regard. If my work has taught me anything, it is that self-aggrandisement is completely unhistorical.

Peter Ackroyd

Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Raoul Vaneigem

Women! I have no idea. I don't know anything about women at all. They're a complete mystery to me.

Bryan Ferry

Part of this new world of completely improvisational terrorism is that there were codes of war that disintegrated in the face of terrorism.

Diane Sawyer

Your everyday supermarket now carries roughly 40,000 items - twice as many as a decade ago. There are so many products, so many brands and sub-species of those brands, that no consumer is safe from the bombardment of choice overload. A huge variety o...

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Getting Things Done

Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gentl...

The Complete Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Why are we worn out? Why do we, who start out so passionate, brave, noble, believing, become totally bankrupt by the age of thirty or thirty-five? Why is it that one is extinguished by consumption, another puts a bullet in his head, a third seeks obl...

The Complete Short Novels

Márgarét, are you gríeving Over Goldengrove unleaving? Leáves, líke the things of man, you With your fresh thoughts care for, can you? Ah! ás the heart grows older It will come to such sights colder By and by, nor spare a sigh Though worlds of ...

The Complete Poems: With Selected Prose

A collection of bad love songs, tattered from overuse, has to touch us like a cemetery or a village. So what if the houses have no style, if the graves are vanishing under tasteless ornaments and inscriptions? Before an imagination sympathetic and re...

The Complete Short Stories of Marcel Proust

We should live, my Lesbia, and love And value all the talk of stricter Old men at a single penny. Suns can set and rise again; For us, once our brief light has set, There's one unending night for sleeping. Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred, T...

The Complete Poems

I want to live my life, carrying my memories with me. Even if those memories are painful, even if those memories do nothing but hurt me, even if I wish I could forget those memories… As long as I keep carrying them with me, and don’t run away fro...

Fruits Basket: The Complete Collection

The entire Jesus concept, that human sacrifice should be the substratum of a moral religion of love, strikes me as incongruous. God condemned us and Jesus saved us, and they are actually the same being? Christianity is the idea that you are so abhorr...

How to Prove God Does Not Exist: The Complete Guide to Validating Atheism

Try not to take it personally if the mother criticizes you or tells you to stop doing something that you expected to be helpful. Just say, “Sorry,” and stop doing it. Don’t try to explain why you did it or express frustration with her. She is r...

The Birth Partner: A Complete Guide to Childbirth for Dads, Doulas, and All Other Labor Companions

may my heart always be open to little birds who are the secrets of living whatever they sing is better than to know and if men should not hear them men are old may my mind stroll about hungry and fearless and thirsty and supple and even if it's sunda...

Complete Poems, 1904-1962

Vairâgya or renunciation is the turning point in all the various Yogas. The Karmi (worker) renounces the fruits of his work. The Bhakta (devotee) renounces all little loves for the almighty and omnipresent love. The Yogi renounces his experiences, b...

The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda: v. 3

[…] there exists around the written world opened by the work a multitude of other possible worlds, which we can complete by means of our images and our words. Denying oneself this work of completion in the name of some hypothetical fidelity to the ...

Sherlock Holmes Was Wrong: Reopening the Case of The Hound of the Baskervilles

The attempt to develop a sense of humor and to see things in a humorous light is some kind of a trick learned while mastering the art of living. Yet it is possible to practice the art of living even in a concentration camp, although suffering is omni...

Man's Search for Meaning