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One of the responsibilities faced by the Environmental Genome Project is to provide the science base upon which society can make better informed risk management decisions. ”
While the Environmental Genome Project does not seek to assign allele frequencies, we are aware of the importance of accurate allele frequency estimates for future epidemiologic studies and the large sample sizes such estimates will require. ”
Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. ”
Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never. ”
Admiration of great men, living or dead, naturally evokes imitation of them in a greater or less degree. ”
It is energy - the central element of which is will - that produces the miracle that is enthusiasm in all ages. Everywhere it is what is called force of character and the sustaining power of all great action. ”
Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action. ”
There is but one pride pardonable; that of being above doing a base or dishonorable action. ”
As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man. ”
Actions are visible, though motives are secret. ”