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During normal cell metabolism, RNA is constantly being made and broken down. The purine and pyrimidine residues are reused by several salvage pathways to make ...

Today's dialogue has succeeded in reinforcing the need for international partnerships and cooperation in tackling the reality of climate change.

There's never any knowing - how am I to put it? - which of our actions, which of our idlenesses won't have things hanging on ...

I am a person who believes in asking questions, in not conforming for the sake of conforming. I am deeply dissatisfied - about so many ...

Numbers can be an important aspect of understanding infectious disease. Take measles. At first glance, it might seem nonmathematical. It's caused by a paramyxovirus

Yes, reason has been a part of organized religion, ever since two nudists took dietary advice from a talking snake.

It is notorious that, whenever the demand for labor is much greater than the supply, or the wages of labor are much higher than the ...

If someone says 'Give me one word of advice,' I say 'be fearless.' And knowing without any shadow of a doubt that what they have ...

When in doubt," the mage Numair Salmalin had taught the pages, "Shoot the wizard.

The final two words of his challenge, "no tears", meant that the loser was expected to suffer a great deal of pain, but wasn't entitled ...

All I know about what people think of my gear is what a couple of my friends tell me, and one of them always wants ...

Joe Arpaio needs no help from me getting attention. For years he has been a beacon of bigotry and intolerance for all the world to ...

But if I didn't know Kate, then maybe I didn't know myself-and if was that not-knowing that made my gut clench. Like losing your balance, ...

Chinese food in Texas is the best Chinese food in the United States except Boston.

The whole key to social climbing is not having spinach in your teeth.

I'm not the one who's so far awayWhen I feel the snake bite enter my veins.Never did I wanna be here again,And I don't remember ...

When you lose your face ... , it is like dropping your necklace down a well. The only way you can get it back is ...

I was not allowed to talk about being adopted when growing up. I walked around feeling like I was going to explode.

Any person or thing of significance to you unconsciously plays a role in mirroring your own internal universe, just as you do theirs.

In pubs across the land, the customers speak of little else but lunar nutation, especially since the moon is nutating at this very moment.

Find your school satyr and get his help. You need to make it to Camp Half-Blood right away.

I'm asking you to marry me within the next hour." He simply looked at her. "I can't think of a reason why you should. I ...

Don't dunk your nigiri in the soy sauce. Don't mix your wasabi in the soy sauce. If the rice is good, complement your sushi chef ...

If a boy ever says, you remind me of someonedon't fall in love with him. You will never be anything more than second best.

I'm never without Nerds and peanut M&M's. I have a sweet tooth! I have an unlimited supply on hand at home, but the candy packs ...

I can make things happen when plays break down.

Those nearest to our nearest may not happen to be the people who would have been our chief chosen friends, but they must be our ...

A person who cultivates any interest in self-improvement will necessary encounter successes and failures, both of which life lessons can be useful to remember when ...

I worked with someone who told me they'd never like me. But for some reason, I just felt like I needed her approval. So I ...

The proper request of love is that our entire life should be oriented to the imitation of the Beloved. Let us therefore spare no effort ...

That's not a lucky thing, Cecil," said Teresa, "it's a sacred thing." "What's the difference?" Cecil asked. Teresa smiled. "Roughly this," she said. "A thing ...

I really like Neutrogena for skin care and CoverGirl makeup. I can't stand heavy makeup. I feel like my skin can't breathe, and CoverGirl is ...

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for a bird to learn to ...

Love is patient. Love is kind. Love always forgives, trusts, supports, and endures. Love never fails. When every star in the heavens grows cold, and ...

There's also a subplot about a guy who manages pop groups. Dave is a very ambitious boy, and he gets offered an audition but only ...

My biggest ambition when I was younger was to appear on stage at what was then Nimrod, which is the theatre where my father used ...

Some girls can skate but I personally believe that skateboarding is not for girls at all. Not one bit.

The number of women supporting families on their own is increasing quickly; between 1973 and 2006, the proportion of families headed by a single mother ...

Agatha's mum gives me nice clothes for Christmas, and her dad talks to me about my future like I'm not going to die in a ...

[Courage] always bigger than what you think you can handle, but you're never going to be given something you can't handle. So you say, "Okay, ...

There is no room for God's Word in our culture, where our children are without reverence for God or faith in the Bible. There is ...

In addition to billions in new 'stimulus' spending that our country can't afford, the Geithner plan also contains billions in tax increases on small and ...

Nino?" When Johnny didn't answer, the Don went on. "Friendship is everything. Friendship is more than talent. It is more than government. It is almost ...

When you start replacing facts with feelings, you disturb the equilibrium between right and wrong, confusing them as one and the same while encouraging more ...

These people were the first to master a new kind of late twentieth-century life. They thrived on the rapid turnover of acquaintances, the lack of ...

It's lovely, the way wishes are added to it, by lighting candles with ones that are already lit and adding them to the branches. New ...

I am a product of Nollywood and my loyalty remains unshaken.

We've been everywhere around Northwest. I was biking until the clouds came. We'll go in the woods, we'll go up and down the river. I ...

You cannot trust 25 guys in a locker room to have the same respect and training as I do with a weapon. That I do ...

I only shampoo [my hair] once a month.

Writing a novel that works is an extremely difficult thing to do. It requires a level of skill and dedication that always surprises me.

I would keep my focus on the Lord, no matter what.

I'm drawn to New England because that's where my roots are, and I miss it. I come from many generations of New Englanders, and so, ...

My parents said sticks and stones will break your bones but names will never hurt you. But I always felt a sense of exhilaration after ...

Not caring how you look is but a brief step away from not caring what you do or how you treat people. And surely, if ...

My entire youth has been Nasty Gal. My entire future is Nasty Gal.

One avoids Creolisms. Some families completely forbid Creole and mothers ridicule their children for speaking it.

Negativity drove me out of politics in the mid-Nineties.

School is practise for future life,practise makes perfect, nobody's perfect so why practise?

Society must be made to operate in such a way that it eradicates once and for all the desire of a man to become richer, ...

What the fuck happened to you? [...] You look like you lost a fight with a lamprey. Hickey, hickey...bruise, bruise, bruise...bite. I thought that thing ...

My wife, who does not like journalizing, said it was leaving myself embowelled to posteritya good strong figure. But I think itis rather leaving myself ...

The best way to measure the loss of intellectual sophistication - this "nerdification," to put it bluntly - is in the growing disappearance of sarcasm, ...

Well, I was making a record, and I had to choose a name, because they said, you know, you can't make a record under the ...

That's great, Grace, but in case you've forgotten, we're supposed to kill vampires, not play nice and have lunch with them. - Archer

I'm thinking of people in rural Japan and China, where McDonald's hasn't yet arrived. These are the thinnest, healthiest, longest-lived people with the least risk ...

There are so many minutes and hours and days we spend taking life for granted, not feeling it so much as going along with it. ...

Unions, though they may for a time be able to secure an increase in money wages for their members, partly at the expense of employers ...

Sometimes, even those whom we consider as our close friends may betray us so easily, in a moment when we do not even expect it. ...

Canst thou, O partial sleep, give thy repose to the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude, and in the calmest and most stillest night, ...

I am the laughter of the new-born child On whose soft-breathing sleep an angel smiled.

It is truly amazing that, with much less neuroscientific knowledge available, Hayek's model comes closer, in some respects, to being neurophysiologically verifiable than those models ...

With love that knew no fear, the Singer caught his torment, wrapped it all in song and gave it back to him as peace.

I've worked with a lot of different producers, a lot of different writers on the album, so I mostly feel like I learned a lot ...

I often said that never in the history of the world did one man receive so much faith and trust as Hitler. Similary, no one ...

Royce's eyes narrowed in discouragement at the thoght of having to sing to jenny. his deep bariton voice would surely bring every hound for miles ...

I don't need a boyfriend to be happy. If I meet someone and I want to be with him, then I will be. I'm very ...

That is the worst thing about despair: it is not constant, any more than love is.

Guns tell the truth. Guns never say, "I'm only kidding." War is ugly because the truth can be ugly and war is very sincere.

Full disclosure: I've never read 'Eat Pray Love,' nor have I even seen the movie.

The career batting average (.254) during parts of five Major League seasons for Francisco Cabrera - which proves that it takes only one big hit, ...

Smile. No one cares how you feel.

I'm liking that I can throw any kind of sentence at her without worrying it's too out there.

The killer .... is making it too easy... - Naaah, not possible... to be so easy!

You can call me namastunde or surfatunde. Either works.

It is a very solemn delusion when ministers think they are prospering, and yet do not hear of conversions.

Machines are non living things, but they still can absorb human attitudes.

Do not just take a risk ; take the risk. When you are taking the risk, ponder!

I've always known myself. But he was the first to recognize me. And to love what he saw.

There would be no need for love if perfection were possible. Love arises from our imperfection, from our being different and always in need of ...

I'd never assume an audience was anything but totally receptive and perfect. Seriously, it seems to me that's the only circumstance you can work under. ...

I was raised to volunteer: nursing homes, clinics, church nurseries, school, everywhere that could use help. It's such an intrinsic part of me, to use ...

Nothing ever stays the same. Just because things aren't good now doesn't mean they will be that way forever ... Never quit.

There are good reasons why we don't want everyone to learn nuclear physics, medicine or how financial markets work. Our entire modern project has been ...

The choosing of a role is so difficult for me. That's the real challenge: to choose the role, not to do the role. Once you've ...

No form or combination of social polity has yet been devised to make an energetic people out of a community of pusillanimous and enfeebled citizens.

I never trusted a man who never smoked or drank.

May I know your name, sir?"The smile rearranged his face under the terrible scars. "Nezahualcoyotl. Michel Nezahualcoyotl. Charmed.

Large-caps were safe in 1996, '97, '98. Everybody was buying index funds and Nifty Fifty funds. As long as money was pouring in, it was ...

He's bald," she said."He shaved the top of his head because he felt his hair acted as a barrier between him and God.""Wow. Really?""No.