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“Nelson-Rees had since been hired by the National Cancer Institute to help stop the contamination problem. He would become known as a vigilante who published “HeLa Hit Lists” in Science, listing any contaminated lines he found, along with the names of researchers who’d given him the cells. He didn’t warn researchers when he found that their cells had been contaminated with HeLa; he just published their names, the equivalent of having a scarlet H pasted on your lab door.”
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― The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
“I'm sitting at the bar, rearranging the order of my jokes. I'm under the delusion that I'm having bad shows because of some cosmic misalignment of words, phrases, and ideas. I may as well have cast runes into a spirit bowl, hoping that the collective heart of the audience would open to my necromantic call. Maybe that's how jugglers do it. Those guys never have shitty sets.”
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― Zombie Spaceship Wasteland
“The greatest thing a man can do for himself is to marry someone who is infinitely better than he is. And that's exactly what I did.”
― The Journal of Best Practices: A Memoir of Marriage, Asperger Syndrom and One Man's Quest to be a Better Husband
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“It is very difficult to make really big,
important, life-changing decisions because we are all susceptible
to a formidable array of decision biases. There are more of them
than we realize, and they come to visit us more often than we
like to admit.”
― The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home
important, life-changing decisions because we are all susceptible
to a formidable array of decision biases. There are more of them
than we realize, and they come to visit us more often than we
like to admit.”
― The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home
“There's a trick to being whatever you want to be in life. It starts with the simple belief that you are what or who you say you are.”
― Tough Shit: Life Advice from a Fat, Lazy Slob Who Did Good
― Tough Shit: Life Advice from a Fat, Lazy Slob Who Did Good
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