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Given the opportunity, under the right conditions, two cells from wildly different sources, a yeast cell, say, and a chicken erythrocyte, will touch, fuse, and the two nuclei will then fuse as well, and the new hybrid cell will now divide into monstrous progeny. Naked cells, lacking self-respect, do not seem to have any sense of self.


Lewis Thomas


#cell #cells #chicken #conditions #different

This morning, I went to wipe my hands on a tea towel, and while I was using it, it seemed like it felt a bit light. I unfolded it and realized my daughter had cut little bits out of it to make frocks for her dolls!


Emma Thompson


#bits #cut #daughter #dolls #felt

The encouragement I got from Campbell was a quick check and praise. Once the Space Beagle was launched on its mission, it seemed natural for it to breed additional thoughts.


A. E. van Vogt


#breed #campbell #check #encouragement #got

Men's indignation, it seems, is more excited by legal wrong than by violent wrong; the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second like being compelled by a superior.


Thucydides


#cheated #compelled #equal #excited #first

The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little - or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives.


Anthony Trollope


#his #little #lives #nature #nothing

Everybody now seems to be talking about democracy. I don't understand this. As I think of it, democracy isn't like a Sunday suit to be brought out and worn only for parades. It's the kind of a life a decent man leads, it's something to live for and to die for.


Dalton Trumbo


#brought #decent #decent man #democracy #die

The constraints of melodrama can be a great blessing, because they demand that all the characters involved - as absurd and extreme as they may initially seem - must stay utterly rooted in their own reality, or the whole project collapses.


Stanley Tucci


#because #blessing #characters #collapses #constraints

Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners.


Alexis de Tocqueville


#everything #except #first #form #grow

When reflecting upon it today, that the Pearl Harbor attack should have succeeded in achieving surprise seems a blessing from Heaven. It was clear that a great American fleet had been concentrated in Pearl Harbor, and we supposed that the state of alert would be very high.


Hideki Tojo


#alert #american #attack #been #blessing

In many cases, the user interface to a program is the most important part for a commercial company: whether the programs works correctly or not seems to be secondary.


Linus Torvalds


#commercial #company #correctly #important #interface