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• A comparison between the triplets tentatively deduced by these methods with the changes in amino acid sequence produced by mutation shows a fair measure of agreement.

  Francis Crick

  Agreement, Mutation, Acid

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• Earlier this week ... scientists announced the completion of a task that once seemed unimaginable; and that is, the deciphering of the entire DNA sequence of the human genetic code. This amazing accomplishment is likely to affect the 21st century as profoundly as the invention of the computer or the splitting of the atom affected the 20th century. I believe that the 21st century will be the century of life sciences, and nothing makes that point more clearly than this momentous discovery. It will revolutionize medicine as we know it today.

  Edward Kennedy

  Believe, Science, Dna

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• And didn't it always go like that--body parts not lining up the way you wanted them to, all of it a little bit off, as if the world itself were an animated sequence of longing and envy and self-hatred and grandiosity and failure and success, a strange and endless cartoon loop that you couldn't stop watching, because, despite all you knew by now, it was still so interesting.

  Meg Wolitzer

  Self, Envy, Interesting

  Meg Wolitzer (2013). “The Interestings”, p.468, Random House

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• We have also obtained a glimpse of another crucial idea about languages and program design. This is the approach of statified design, the notion that a complex system should be structured as a sequence of levels that are described using a sequence of languages. Each level is constructed by combining parts that are regarded as primitive at that level, and the parts constructed at each level are used as primitives at the next level. The language used at each level of a stratified design has primitives, means of combination, and means of abstraction appropriate to that level of detail.

  Hal Abelson

  Learning, Mean, Ideas

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• One needs but to say that, in the case of an unfamiliar sequence of syllables, only about seven can be grasped in one act, but that with frequent repetition and gradually increasing familiarity with the series this capacity of consciousness may be increased

  Hermann Ebbinghaus

  Needs, May, Consciousness

  Hermann Ebbinghaus (1913). “Memory: A Contribution to Experimental Psychology”

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• Listen, are we helpless? Are we doomed to do it again and again and again? Have we no choice but to play the Phoenix in an unending sequence of rise and fall? Assyria, Babylon, Egypt, Greece, Carthage, Rome, the Empires of Charlemagne and the Turk: Ground to dust and plowed with salt. Spain, France, Britain, America—burned into the oblivion of the centuries. And again and again and again. Are we doomed to it, Lord, chained to the pendulum of our own mad clockwork, helpless to halt its swing? This time, it will swing us clean to oblivion.

  Walter M. Miller, Jr.

  Fall, Play, Phoenix

  Walter M. Miller Jr (2014). “A Canticle For Leibowitz”, p.146, Hachette UK

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• Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stranded, stuck fast, untimely wounded, or otherwise deflected from its life's quest of delivering a tiny charge of genetic material to the right partner at the right moment in order to perpetuate the only possible sequence of hereditary combinations that could result -- eventually, astoundingly, and all too briefly -- in you.

  Bill Bryson

  Order, Quests, Tiny

  FaceBook post by Bill Bryson from Mar 09, 2013

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• In very truth, a wise imagination, which is the presence of the spirit of God, is the best guide that man or woman can have; for it is not the things we see the most clearly that influence us the most powerfully; undefined, yet vivid visions of something beyond, something which eye has not seen nor ear heard, have far more influence than any logical sequences whereby the same things may be demonstrated to the intellect. It is the nature of the thing, not the clearness of its outline, that determines its operation. We live by faith, and not by sight.

  George MacDonald

  Wise, Eye, Men

  George MacDonald (1883). “The Imagination, and Other Essays”

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• A form of government that is not the result of a long sequence of shared experiences, efforts, and endeavors can never take root.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Army, Government, Roots

  "The Mind of Napoleon". Book by J. Christopher Herold, 1955.

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• As far as action is concerned, our films have been coming up with some great sequences. In fact, I think Hollywood is copying Bollywood by getting their heroes to bash up 15 guys at a time.

  Vijender Singh

  Hero, Thinking, Guy

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• People like Chris Nolan are shooting isolated sequences in IMAX. Those cameras are the size of a Volkswagen.

  Steven Soderbergh

  People, Cameras, Shooting

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The severity of the law of God is the necessary sequence of his infinite love.

  G. Campbell Morgan

  Law, Scary, Infinite

  G. Campbell Morgan (1998). “The Ten Commandments”, p.12, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• The day is for mistake and error, sequence of time for success and carrying out. The one who anticipates is master of the day.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Success, Mistake, Errors

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• Time perception is very much about how you sequence your activities, how many activities you layer overtop of others, and the types of gaps, if any, you leave in between activities.

  Douglas Coupland

  Perception, Layers, Gaps

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• George Orwells 1984 frequently tops surveys of our greatest books: its not a celebration of poetic language. Its decidedly anti-literary, a masterpiece of personal and political narrative sequence. And its subject matter is crucial, because what 1984 shows is that language can be a dirty trick.

  Graham Joyce

  Dirty, Book, Political

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• There are some sequences in films that I think work filmicly, that stand out to me, but thats much more to do with the staging and the cutting and the mood of the thing as a sequence, the way everything comes together.

  Roger Deakins

  Cutting, Thinking, Together

  "Famed Cinematographer Roger Deakins Talks Coens, Storytelling, ‘Prisoners’". Interview with Anne Thompson, www.indiewire.com. January 13, 2014.

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• I try to see what the dream might be referring to - because the information in the world is being interpreted by my brain which only has the concepts derived from our five senses. So I think of the sequences in my dream as my brain doing its very best to process information in a way it knows I can deal with.

  Amy Hardie

  Dream, Thinking, Brain

  "Live Chat with Filmmaker and Dream Experts". Live Chat, www.pbs.org.

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• I just find it annoying that in these sequences [of the fight scenes], traditionally, there's music trying to pump you up. I don't like that, personally, as an audience member. This just reflects my taste.

  Steven Soderbergh

  Fighting, Trying, Pumps

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Art lives on the mental plane (the real painting is not the set of dry pigments on the canvas nor is a symphony the sequence of sound waves that convey it to our ear) but, as the post-modernists insist, is reinterpreted in new contexts by each appreciator. As for gossip, which includes the vast majority of our thoughts, its essence is its relation to a unique local part of time and space.

  David Mumford

  Art, Real, Unique

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• I also, since we have digital cameras, the blue screen composites are so good that I would rather shoot on a stage than there, especially the complicated sequences. The sun never sets in a studio stage.

  Roland Emmerich

  Blue, Cameras, Digital

  Source: collider.com

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• All producers encourage you, whatever it is, to make it more-so. If you've got a joke, can it be funnier? If you've got an action sequence, can it be more exciting? That's the nature of being a producer.

  Walter Hill

  Action, Exciting, Producers

  Source: collider.com

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• Just as the sentence contains one idea in all its fullness, so the paragraph should embrace a distinct episode; and as sentences should follow one another in harmonious sequence, so paragraphs must fit into another like the automatic couplings of railway carriages.

  Winston Churchill

  Ideas, Fit, Embrace

  Winston Churchill (2010). “My Early Life: 1874-1904”, p.208, Simon and Schuster

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• If new species arise very rapidly in small, peripherally isolated local populations, then the great expectation of insensibly graded fossil sequences is a chimera. A new species does not evolve in the area of its ancestors; it does not arise from the slow transformation of all its forbears.
  co-author with Niles Eldridge

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Expectations, Population, Doe

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• There is more danger of numerical sequences continued indefinitely than of trees growing up to heaven. Each will some time reach its greatest height.

  Gottlob Frege

  Growing Up, Tree, Heaven

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• The way in which the photograph records experience is also different from the way of language. Language makes sense only when it is presented as a sequence of propositions. Meaning is distorted when a word or sentence is, as we say, taken out of context; when a reader or listener is deprived of what was said before, and after. But there is no such thing as a photograph taken out of context, for a photograph does not require one. In fact, the point of photography is to isolate images from context, so as to make them visible in a different way.

  Neil Postman

  Photography, Taken, Way

  Neil Postman (2005). “Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business”, p.73, Penguin

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