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• The software programs that make our body run ... were evolved in very different times. We'd like to actually change those programs. One little software program, called the fat insulin receptor gene, basically says, 'Hold onto every calorie, because the next hunting season may not work out so well.' That was in the interests of the species tens of thousands of years ago. We'd like to turn that program off.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Running, Motivation, Inspiration

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• All other species on this planet are gene machines only. They don't imitate at all well; we alone are gene machines and meme machines as well.

  Susan Blackmore

  Motivation, Inspiration, Machines

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• The success gene lives in every person regardless of the results they are presently getting - we are spiritual beings and spirit is always for expansion and fuller expression.

  Bob Proctor

  Spiritual, Expression, Expansion

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• You could say singing is in our genes. Both our parents sang and made up songs constantly.

  Isaac Hanson

  Song, Parent, Singing

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• All humans are essentially wild creatures and hate confinement. We need what is wild, and we thrill to it, our wildness bubbling over with an anarchic joie de vivre. We glint when the wild light shines. The more suffocatingly enclosed we are - tamed by television, controlled by mortgages and bureaucracy - the louder our wild genes scream in aggression, anger and depression.

  Jay Griffiths

  Hate, Light, Shining

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• It’s all in the genes”: an explanation for the way things are that does not threaten the way things are. Why should someone feel unhappy or engage in antisocial behavior when that person is living in the freest and most prosperous nation on earth? It can’t be the system! There must be a flaw in the wiring somewhere.

  Louis Menand

  Unhappy, Doe, Earth

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• We are all predisposed to disease if we mismanage our genes.

  Mark Sisson

  Disease, Ifs

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• I mean you got to thank your parents for giving you the right genes.

  Eric Heiden

  Thank You, Mean, Giving

  Interview with Charlie Snyder, students.depaul.edu. February 17, 2005.

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• If the accident of genes has put you in a place where you can be a role model, then be somebody!

  Lauren Hutton

  Role Models, Roles, Accidents

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• Writing is done by someone. It is not, like some mythical goddess, a skill that springs forth, full grown from the genes of inspiration.

  Leonard Bishop

  Spring, Inspiration, Writing

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• I began to ration my writing, for fear I would dream through life as my father had done. I was afraid I had inherited a poisoned gene from him, a vocation without a gift.

  Mavis Gallant

  Dream, Father, Writing

  Mavis Gallant (2011). “Varieties of Exile”, p.136, New York Review of Books

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• We must distinguish between genes that cause physical characteristics, like the color of your eyes or hair, over which you have no control, and what we could call 'behavioral dispositions'. We are responsible for our behavior, no matter what those dispositions are.

  Erwin W. Lutzer

  Eye, Color, Hair

  Source: www1.cbn.com

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• My grandfather was a small-town doctor and he used to say that I was missing a gene that told me that some giant risk I am about to take with my life is both stupid and dangerous. I'm grateful for this. Everything worthwhile that we create in life requires a leap of faith.

  Paul Budnitz

  Stupid, Grateful, Doctors

  "Say 'Ello' to the Guy Who Invented an Alternative to Facebook" by Alyssa Newcomb, abcnews.go.com. September 30, 2014.

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• The smell of factory farms . . . many notice these places only when the odours reach their homes, affecting their own quality of life. We create these animals for our profit and pleasure, playing with their genes, violating their dignity as living creatures, forcing them to lie and live in their own urine and excrement, turning pens into penitentiaries and frustrating their every desire except what is needed to keep them breathing and breeding. And then we complain about the smell.

  Matthew Scully

  Lying, Home, Animal

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• I think maybe what happened was the convenience of technology overshadowed the experience of holding an album in your hands, and sitting on your bedroom floor, and staring at a picture of John Lennon or Gene Simmons or Johnny Rotten. That tangible experience can sometimes become an even more emotional experience, because it's really happening.

  Dave Grohl

  Technology, Emotional, Thinking

  "Q&A: Dave Grohl on vinyl, Record Store Day". Interview with Patrick Ryan, www.usatoday.com. April 15, 2015.

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• When you hang around a lot of comedians long enough, you realize there's a certain gene, in every comedian. It's why we get hyper-analytical about things.

  Chris Hardwick

  Long, Comedian, Realizing

  "How Nerdist Chris Hardwick Gets Things Done". Interview with Kevin Purdy, lifehacker.com. April 29, 2009.

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• The massive quantities of radiation that would be released in a war fought with nuclear weapons might, over time, cause such great changes in the human gene pool that following generations might not be recognizable as human beings.

  Helen Caldicott

  War, Would Be, Generations

  Helen Caldicott (1980). “Nuclear madness: what you can do”

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• We now know 600 different genes involved in cancer - giving rise to new drug targets.

  Eric Lander

  Cancer, Giving, Drug

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• Natural selection involves no plan, no goal, and no direction — just genes increasing and decreasing in frequency depending on whether individuals with those genes have, relative to other individuals, greater or lesser reproductive success.

  Randolph M. Nesse

  Goal, Individual, Natural

  Randolph M. Nesse, George C. Williams (2012). “Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine”, p.14, Vintage

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• I think that space flight is a condition of Nature that comes into effect when an intelligent species reaches the saturation point of its planetary habitat combined with a certain level of technological ability... I think it is a built-in gene-directed drive for the spreading of the species and its continuation.

  Donald A. Wollheim

  Intelligent, Thinking, Space

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• I have always been a fan of 'Star Trek.' I love Gene Roddenberry's vision of the future.

  LeVar Burton

  Stars, Visions Of The Future, Fans

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I got to work with Gene Hackman for six weeks, side by side, 12 hours a day.

  Marguerite Moreau

  Sides, Six, Week

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• A favorite cast? Lisa Kudrow, Anthony Hopkins, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, and my wife.

  William H. Macy

  Wife, Casts, Freeman

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• I think there's such a thing as a performance gene. If it's in your DNA it needs to come out. For me, it originally came out through music, then segued into acting and came out through there. I always needed to get up and perform.

  Cillian Murphy

  Thinking, Dna, Acting

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

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• I would ask my dad what he did, and he'd say, 'I listen to people's problems.' In some way what he did for a living is in my genes.

  Marcia Cross

  Dad, People, Way

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