A Quote by Edward Abbey

Mental degeneracy may be caused by lead poisoning. Or by a poor dip in the gene pool.

Edward Abbey

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Edward Abbey
American - Author
January 29, 1927 - March 14, 1989

When we talk about genes for anything, like a gene for being gay or a gene for being aggressive or something of that sort, that a gene for anything may not have been a gene for that thing under different environmental conditions.

Richard Dawkins

What would happen if the autism gene was eliminated from the gene pool? You would have a bunch of people standing around in a cave, chatting and socializing and not getting anything done.

Temple Grandin

Some, like Mother Teresa, are born with a gene to help the poor, and some are born with a gene to write. I was born with a gene to tell my story, and I just had to.

Frank McCourt

PAIN, n. An uncomfortable frame of mind that may have a physical basis in something that is being done to the body, or may be purely mental, caused by the good fortune of another.

Ambrose Bierce

I mean, think of Flint. I mean, think of the lead poisoning of thousands of poor and black children across the United States.

Henry Giroux

That the primary effect of gene mutation may be as simple as the substitution of a single amino acid by another and may lead to profound secondary changes in protein structure and properties has recently been strongly indicated by the work of Ingram on hemoglobin.

Edward Lawrie Tatum

I didn't just dip my toe into the pool of romantic comedies.

Nancy Juvonen

The problem with the gene pool is that there's no lifeguard.

David Gerrold

The shock caused by the September 11 events has also lead to a thorough reflection on the existing disparity between rich and poor countries, on the misery of populations of the South.

Omar Bongo

Gene police! You! Out of the pool, now!

Charles Stross

Let's face it, the gene pool needs a little chlorine.

Jimmy Carr

The moment we turn over the soil we start poisoning it and we go on poisoning it all the way through... and there's probably not a river in the United States that doesn't have pesticide poisoning in it. The fish are dying. The seas are getting polluted. All of these things are happening. The rain forests are going. That's what the context is.

W. S. Merwin

Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.

Walter Scott

We have new media, new forms of connectivity, and an enormous transference of knowledge. When you study evolution, you see that when new genes meet and multiply, they create new contexts and new species. In a sense, the gene-pool of knowledge and of people connecting at all levels is literally spawning a kind of mind-pool of possibilities.

Jean Houston

My father was very bright. My mother had enormous drive. Put that together, and that's my gene pool.

Stephen A. Schwarzman

Ressentiment is a self-poisoning of the mind which has quite definite causes and consequences. It is a lasting mental attitude, caused by the systematic repression of certain emotions and affects which, as such are normal components of human nature. Their repression leads to the constant tendency to indulge in certain kinds of value delusions and corresponding value judgments. The emotions and affects primarily concerned are revenge, hatred, malice, envy, the impulse to detract, and spite.

Max Scheler

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