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“In moments of great stress, every life form that exists gives out a tiny subliminal signal.”
Douglas Adams
Stress
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Communication
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Life
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Biology
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Interconnectedness
2.
“Humans are mammals and their red blood cells are similar in that they do not have nuclei. Reptiles and birds have nucleated red blood cells, we do.”
John Grisham
Biology
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Science
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Blood Cells
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Animal Kingdom
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Cellular Differences
3.
“A million million spermatozoa, All of them alive: Out of their cataclysm but one poor Noah Dare hope to survive.”
Aldous Huxley
Reproduction
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Survival
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Biology
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Human Existence
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Chance
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Life’s Fragility
4.
“Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.”
Aldous Huxley
Intelligence
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Biology
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Human Nature
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Philosophical Definition
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Existential Observation
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Psychological Insight
5.
“The ductless glands secrete among other things our moods, our aspirations, our philosophy of life.”
Aldous Huxley
Biology
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Psychology
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Philosophy
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Human Nature
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Scientific Insight
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Determinism
6.
“What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera.”
Aldous Huxley
Biology
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Emotions
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Thoughts
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Human Nature
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Physiological Determinism
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Philosophical Materialism
7.
“The bones are hard and by themselves seem dead and stony, but by rooting into and pulling against the skeleton, the rest of the body carries out all the motions of life.”
Orson Scott Card
Life
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Structure
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Interdependence
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Biology
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Metaphor
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Vitality
8.
“I am a creature of chemicals.”
Orson Scott Card
Chemicals
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Identity
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Biology
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Self-perception
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Scientific Reductionism
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Human Nature
9.
“People born in the fall and winter are more likely to be larks.”
Daniel H. Pink
Seasonal Patterns
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Larks Behavior
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Personal Rhythms
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Circadian
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Traits
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Biology
10.
“The human brain is by no means fully formed at birth. It continues to shape itself through life, with the most intense growth occurring during childhood.”
Daniel Goleman
Brain Development
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Neural Growth
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Childhood Learning
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Biology
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Adaptation
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Change
11.
“Threats to our standing in the eyes of others are remarkably potent biologically, almost as powerful as those to our very survival.”
Daniel Goleman
Social Threats
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Emotional Response
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Fear Instinct
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Influence
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Biology
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Survival
12.
“If a species is subject to repetitive external environmental stimuli over the course of several generations, in time that species will adapt to those stimuli. The genetics of that species will change to support a new internal state, one that will help the species survive that external stimuli for generations to come. This is called survival of the species. It is a linear, slow process for most species.”
Joe Dispenza
Adaptation Theory
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Environmental Change
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Genetic Survival
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Biology
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Adaptation
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Time
13.
“The separation of psychology from the premises of biology is purely artificial, because the human psyche lives in indissoluble union with the body.”
Carl Jung
Human Psyche
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Psychology Biology
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Indissoluble Union
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Consciousness
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Biology
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Unity
14.
“Bad taste is always creative. It is the domination of biology over intelligence.”
Salvador Dali
Creative Taste
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Biological Intelligence
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Taste
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Creativity
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Biology
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Intelligence
15.
“I am the beneficiary of a lucky break in the genetic sweepstakes.”
Isaac Asimov
Luck
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Genetics
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Life
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Success
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Chance
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Biology
16.
“The human brain, then, is the most complicated organization of matter that we know.”
Isaac Asimov
Brain
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Humanity
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Knowledge
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Science
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Complexity
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Biology
17.
“Life originated in the sea, and about eighty percent of it is still there.”
Isaac Asimov
Life
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Sea
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Ocean
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Evolution
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Nature
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Biology
18.
“The significant chemicals of living tissue are rickety and unstable, which is exactly what is needed for life.”
Isaac Asimov
Life Chemistry
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Biological Science
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Tissue Instability
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Nature
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Biology
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Life
19.
“The body is ready to have babies. Nature wants it done then, when the body can handle it, not after 40, when the income can handle it.”
Toni Morrison
Motherhood Reflection
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Biological Truth
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Parenting Timing
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Motherhood
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Biology
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Parenting
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“You mean to tell me,’ I said, ‘that every time I pleasure a young lady, I shoot into her two thousand million spermatozoa?’ ‘Absolutely.’ ‘All squiggling and squirming and thrashing about?’ ‘Of course.’ ‘No wonder it gives her a charge,’ I said.”
Roald Dahl
Playful Banter
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Unique Humor
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Biology Twist
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Humor
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Playful
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Biology
21.
“Over time I think we will probably see a closer merger of biological intelligence and digital intelligence.”
Elon Musk
Biology
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Intelligence
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Technology
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Future
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Innovation
22.
“Trying to read our DNA is like trying to understand software code - with only 90% of the code riddled with errors. It's very difficult in that case to understand and predict what that software code is going to do.”
Elon Musk
DNA
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Science
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Technology
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Biology
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Complexity
23.
“There have only been about a half dozen genuinely important events in the four-billion-year saga of life on Earth: single-celled life, multicelled life, differentiation into plants and animals, movement of animals from water to land, and the advent of mammals and consciousness.”
Elon Musk
Evolution
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Earth
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Life
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History
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Biology
24.
“Whatever makes us happy today will no longer make us happy tomorrow, because our biology always needs something more. A fixation on happiness inevitably amounts to a never-ending pursuit of “something else” – a new house, a new relationship, another child, another pay raise.”
Mark Manson
Happiness
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Desire
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Biology
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Pursuit
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Satisfaction
25.
“There are five known fundamental tastes in the human palate: salty, sweet, sour, bitter, and umami.”
Malcolm Gladwell
Taste
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Human Senses
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Palate
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Flavor
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Biology
26.
“The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants.”
Thomas Edison
Biology
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Community
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Philosophy
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Life
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Unity
27.
“A human being is primarily a bag for putting food into.”
George Orwell
Human Nature
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Life
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Materialism
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Satire
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Biology
28.
“Happiness is just another of the tricks that our genetic system plays on us to carry out its only role, which is the survival of the species.”
Paulo Coelho
Happiness
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Survival
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Human Nature
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Perspective
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Biology
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“I think the biggest innovations of the 21st century will be at the intersection of biology and technology. A new era is beginning.”
Steve Jobs
Innovation
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Biology
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Technology
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Future
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Intersection
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