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DNA: The Secret of Life

by James D. Watson

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“No audience ever complained about a presentation or speech being too short”
― Stephen Keague, The Little Red Handbook of Public Speaking and Presenting

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“Listen, and you will realize that we are made not from cells or from atoms. We are made from stories.”
― Mia Couto

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“So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall.”
― Roald Dahl

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“The quickest way to spoil a friendship is to wake somebody up in the morning before he is ready.”
― E B White

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“I've been homesick for countries I've never been, and longed to be where I couldn't be.”
― John Cheever

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