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• In the laboratory, we call this the six-degrees-of-separation-from-cancer rule: you can ask any biological question, no matter how seemingly distant-what makes the heart fail, or why worms age, or even how birds learn songs-and you will end up, in fewer than six genetic steps, connecting with a proto-oncogene or tumor suppressor.

  Siddhartha Mukherjee

  Song, Cancer, Heart

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• No one would wish a bad marriage on anyone. But where do we think good marriages come from? They don't spring full blown from the head of Zeus any more than does a good education...Why should a marriage require fewer tears and less toil and shabbier commitment than your job or your clothes or your car?

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Marriage, Jobs, Spring

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• When the church encounters hardship, persecution, and suffering, then it is closest to its crucified Lord. Then there are fewer hypocrites and nominal believers among its members, and then the faith of Christians burns most intensely.

  Gene Veith

  Christian, Hypocrite, Suffering

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• Only one rational path is open to us - simultaneous de-development of the [overdeveloped countries] and semi-development of the underdeveloped countries (UDCs), in order to approach a decent and ecologically sustainable standard of living for all in between. By de-development we mean lower per-capita energy consumption, fewer gadgets, and the abolition of planned obsolescence.

  John Holdren

  Country, Mean, Order

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• Fear was there, too, cold and hot at the same time, making everything in the plain room sharper, with fewer shadows.

  Allison Brennan

  Fear, Shadow, Hot

  Allison Brennan (2007). “Fear No Evil”, p.73, Ballantine Books

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• I have ... spoken to the heads of various Wall Street equity derivatives trading desks and every single one of the senior managers I spoke with told me that Bernie Madoff was a fraud. Of course no one wants to take an undue career risk by sticking their head up ... The fewer people who know who wrote this report the better. I am worried about the personal safety of myself and my family.

  Harry Markopolos

  Senior, Wall, Careers

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• Pension reform can be hard to talk about. In the long run, reform now means fewer demands for layoffs and less draconian measures in the future. It's in the best interest of all Californians to fix this system now.

  Jerry Brown

  Running, Mean, Long

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• He knows that after him everything will continue on much as before, except that there will be a minuscule absence, a barely detective gap in the so-called grand scheme, one unit fewer now. Or not even that, not even an empty space where he once was, for all will rush immediately to fill that vacuum. Pft. Gone. Recollections of him will remain in the minds of others for a while, but presently those others too will die and his few relics with them. And then all will be dark.

  John Banville

  Fear, Dark, Space

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• There would be this advantage in traveling in your own country, even in your own neighborhood, that you would be so thoroughly prepared to understand what you saw you would make fewer traveler's mistakes.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Country, Travel, Mistake

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• Having spent 200 hours on the above, the young player, even if he possesses no special talent for chess, is likely to be among those two or three thousand chessplayers [who play on a par with a master]. There are, however, a quarter of a million chessplayers who annually spend no fewer than 200 hours on chess without making any progress. Without going into any further calculations, I can assert with a high degree of certainty that nowadays we achieve only a fraction of what we are capable of achieving.

  Emanuel Lasker

  Player, Two, Special

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• Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.

  Edward Abbey

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.18, RosettaBooks

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• While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, he who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its course.

  Larry Bird

  Basketball, Facts, Needs

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• Everyone thinks you make mistakes when you're young. But I don't think we make any fewer when we're grown up

  Jodi Picoult

  Growing Up, Mistake, Thinking

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “Nineteen Minutes: A Novel”, p.601, Simon and Schuster

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• There are estimated to be fewer that 50 prodigious savants worldwide. If we were brought together, it would be disappointing in the sense of us having different abilities. One thing that would make me feel united with them would be the sense of us having grown up in isolation.

  Daniel Tammet

  Together, Different, Would Be

  "This much I know" by John Hind, www.theguardian.com. January 31, 2009.

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• Here's to the few who forgive what you do, and the fewer who don't even care

  Leonard Cohen

  Friendship, Forgiving, Care

  Song: The Night Comes On, Album: Various Positions, 1984

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• Man did not enter society to be worse off, or to have fewer rights, but rather to have those rights better secured

  Thomas Paine

  Men, Rights, Secured

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• One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.

  Voltaire

  Poetry, Tragedy, Merit

  Voltaire (2016). “VOLTAIRE – Premium Collection: Novels, Philosophical Writings, Historical Works, Plays, Poems & Letters (60+ Works in One Volume) - Illustrated: Candide, A Philosophical Dictionary, A Treatise on Toleration, Plato's Dream, The Princess of Babylon, Zadig, The Huron, Socrates, The Sage and the Atheist, Dialogues, Oedipus, Caesar…”, p.4095, e-artnow

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• I'm not a believer in predetermined fates, being rewarded for one's efforts. I'm not a believer in karma. The reason why I try to be a good person is because I think it's the right thing to do. If I commit fewer bad acts there will be fewer bad acts, maybe other people will join in committing fewer bad acts, and in time there will be fewer and fewer of them.

  Daniel Handler

  Karma, Fate, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Daniel Handler from Jul 25, 2008

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• I went to SXSW in 2011. God, that was awful. I mean, I only went because my publisher wanted me to promote the book and the organizers invited me and it seemed silly not to go, especially for a relatively unknown first-time author. This is just not my cup of tea; the fewer such events I do on an annual basis, the happier I feel.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Silly, Book, Mean

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• Today, American women bear an average of 2.2 children that live to adulthood. Across most of Europe, women bear even fewer young.

  Helen Fisher

  Children, Average, Europe

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• My importance to the world is relatively small. On the other hand, my importance to myself is tremendous. I am all I have to work with, to play with, to suffer and to enjoy. It is not the eyes of others that I am wary of, but of my own. I do not intend to let myself down more than I can possibly help, and I find that the fewer illusions I have about myself or the world around me, the better company I am for myself.

  Noel Coward

  War, Eye, Hands

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Being a reader is sort of like being president, except reading involves fewer state dinners, usually. You have this agenda you want to get through, but you get distracted by life events, e.g., books arriving in the mail/World War III, and you are temporarily deflected from your chosen path.

  Nick Hornby

  War, Book, Reading

  Nick Hornby (2004). “The Polysyllabic Spree”, McSweeneys Books

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• Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning.

  Bertrand Russell

  Philosophy, Branches, Claims

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Our Knowledge of the External World”, p.1, Routledge

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• Research has shown time and time again that infants who receive the high-quality child care and early education programs do better in school, have more developed social skills, and display fewer behavior problems.

  Judy Biggert

  Children, School, Skills

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• Sir,’ said Stephen, ‘I read novels with the utmost pertinacity. I look upon them--I look upon good novels--as a very valuable part of literature, conveying more exact and finely-distinguished knowledge of the human heart and mind than almost any other, with greater breadth and depth and fewer constraints.

  Patrick O'Brian

  Heart, Mind, Depth

  Patrick O'Brian (2004). “Master and commander ; Post captain ; H.M.S. Surprise ; The Mauritius command”

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