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• In the words of the late Francis Crick...You, your joys and your sorrows, your memories and your ambitions, your sense of personal identity and free will, are in fact no more than the behavior of a vast assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules. (13)

  Mary Roach

  Memories, Ambition, Science

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• The broader the topic, the easier it is, not only to fill a book, but to set the bar pretty high for really great stuff.

  Mary Roach

  Book, Bars, Stuff

  "Spook and Stiff author Mary Roach". Interview with Donna Bowman, www.avclub.com. August 27, 2010.

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• Wisdom comes with age, but keep it to yourself.

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  Inspirational, Life, Age

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• Softball is the reason Washing Machines and Bleach are so popular. Don't think so? Just ask a softball Mom.

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  Softball, Mom, Thinking

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• I am very much out of my element here. There are moments, listening to the conversations going on around me, when I feel I am going to lose my mind. Earlier today, I heard someone say the words, "I felt at one with the divine source of creation." Mary Roach on a conducted tour of Hades. I had to fight the urge to push back my chair and start screaming: STAND BACK! ALL OF YOU! I'VE GOT AN ARTHUR FINDLAY BOX CUTTER! Instead, I quietly excused myself and went to the bar, to commune with spirits I know how to relate to.

  Mary Roach

  Fighting, Mind, Listening

  Mary Roach (2010). “Six Feet Over: Adventures in the Afterlife”, p.159, Canongate Books

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• You won't see me writing about particle physics, or even planetary geology, or chemistry. I practically failed chemistry, and if I had to write a book in any of those areas, I don't think it would go well.

  Mary Roach

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  "Spook and Stiff author Mary Roach". Interview with Donna Bowman, www.avclub.com. August 27, 2010.

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• I would have sold my wife and children into slavery for a ride into space.

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  Children, Space, Wife

  Mary Roach (2011). “Packing for Mars”, p.189, Oneworld Publications

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• NASA might do well to adopt the Red Bull approach to branding and astronautics. Suddenly the man in the spacesuit is not an underpaid civil servant; he's the ultimate extreme athlete. Red Bull knows how to make space hip.

  Mary Roach

  Athlete, Men, Space

  Mary Roach (2011). “Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void”, p.252, W. W. Norton & Company

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• One young woman's tribute describes unwrapping her cadaver's hands and being brought up short by the realization that the nails were painted pink. "The pictures in the anatomy atlas did not show nail polish", she wrote. "Did you choose the color? Did you think that I would see it? I wanted to tell you about the inside of your hands. I want you to know you are always there when I see patients. When I palpate an abdomen, yours are the organs I imagine. When I listen to a heart, I recall holding your heart.

  Mary Roach

  Heart, Thinking, Hands

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• Gravity disappears again, and we rise up off the floor like spooks from a grave. It's like the Rapture in here every thirty seconds.

  Mary Roach

  Disappear, Thirty, Graves

  Mary Roach (2011). “Packing for Mars”, p.58, Oneworld Publications

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