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Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say. Mahalia Jackson

Music Gospel Music Jazz Say Know Although Gospel African Experts Rhythms Origin

When scientists are asked what they are working on, their response is seldom 'Finding the origin of the universe' or 'Seeking to cure cancer.' Usually, they will claim to be tackling a very specific problem - a small piece of the jigsaw that builds up the big picture. Martin Rees

Problem Cancer Will Picture Big Universe Jigsaw Claim Response Finding Seeking Tackling Small Seldom Small Piece Piece Builds Scientists Up Very Cure Big Picture Asked Working Origin Specific

Aging is not currently regarded as a disease, but researchers tend increasingly to view it as the common origin of conditions like insulin resistance or cardiovascular disease, whose incidence rises with age. In treating cell aging, we could prevent these diseases. María Blasco Marhuenda

Age Increasingly Rises Prevent Tend Could Like Insulin Conditions Disease Cell Diseases Common Currently Regarded View Aging Incidence Researchers Origin Whose Cardiovascular Resistance Treating

In comparison, Google is brilliant because it uses an algorithm that ranks Web pages by the number of links to them, with those links themselves valued by the number of links to their page of origin. Michael Shermer

Brilliant Google Algorithm Those Ranks Valued Web Because Links Them Themselves Page Pages Uses Origin Comparison Number

At Vienna, one of the audience affirmed publicly that my performance was not surprising, for he had distinctly seen, while I was playing my variations, the devil at my elbow, directing my arm and guiding my bow. My resemblance to the devil was a proof of my origin. Niccolo Paganini

A great stench will come from Lausanne, but they will not know its origin; they will put out all people from distant places, fire seen in the sky, a foreign nation defeated. Nostradamus

Great People Sky Will Seen Fire Nation Distant Out All People Put Come Know Foreign Places Origin Defeated

The origin of life is one of the great outstanding mysteries of science. Paul Davies

Life Great Science Mysteries Outstanding Origin

The way life manages information involves a logical structure that differs fundamentally from mere complex chemistry. Therefore chemistry alone will not explain life's origin, any more than a study of silicon, copper and plastic will explain how a computer can execute a program. Paul Davies

Life Alone Logical Will Chemistry Way Way Life Complex Silicon Structure More Computer Mere Study Execute Involves How Than Any Information Explain Plastic Origin Therefore Differs Copper Fundamentally Program

Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a point that could be called a true present, a point of origin that marks a new departure. Paul de Man

My surname, Buttigieg (Boot-edge-edge), is very common in my father's country of origin, the tiny island of Malta, and nowhere else. Pete Buttigieg

Father Country Else Island Very Tiny Common Origin Nowhere

My early childhood prepared me to be a social psychologist. I grew up in a South Bronx ghetto in a very poor family. From Sicilian origin, I was the first person in my family to complete high school, let alone go to college. Philip Zimbardo

Alone Family Me School College First Complete Ghetto High Bronx High School First-Person Go South South Bronx Up Very Person Childhood Grew Psychologist Social Poor Origin Prepared Early Early Childhood Sicilian

I'm a technologist by origin and by training, but I'm focused on philanthropy. Pierre Omidyar

Training Philanthropy Focused Origin

Artificial intelligence, in fact, is obviously an intelligence transmitted by conscious subjects, an intelligence placed in equipment. It has a clear origin, in fact, in the intelligence of the human creators of such equipment. Pope Benedict XVI

Artificial Intelligence Intelligence Fact Clear Obviously Equipment Subjects Artificial Human In Fact Placed Transmitted Origin Creators Conscious

The powers, aspirations, and mission of man are such as to raise the study of his origin and nature, inevitably and by the very necessity of the case, from the mere physiological to the psychological stage of scientific operations. Richard Owen

Nature Man Stage Case Physiological Mere Study Mission Powers Operations Scientific Inevitably His Very Psychological Aspirations Origin Necessity Raise

A lot of people forget that the origin of science fiction in the U.S. was in the post-First World War period when there was a real interest to get people into technical careers. Robert J. Sawyer

War Science People World Period Science Fiction Real Lot Forget Get Fiction Interest Origin Technical World War Careers

More than half of the complaints that patients bring to their doctors are emotional in origin. Most often, they include troubled or absent connections with loved ones. Robert J. Waldinger

Half Doctors Complaints More Absent Troubled Emotional Most Than Often Patients Loved Loved Ones Origin Connections Include Bring

I came from such a simple origin, without any great privilege, and I would say I also wanted to make a mark. It wasn't until I was about 15 that I appeared in a race. Roger Bannister

Great Simple Mark Say Would About Until Also Make Without Came Privilege Any Wanted Race Origin Appeared

I was never a comic book guy. I like the movies when I see them, especially the origin stories. I never felt like I could be on the set, at 3 o'clock in the morning, tired, with 10 important decisions to make, and know, intuitively, what the story needs. For me, I'd be copycatting and not inventing. I've never said yes to one. Ron Howard

Needs Morning Me Tired Book Important See Intuitively Guy Inventing Could Never Like Know Important Decisions Make Felt Said Comic Comic Book Yes Stories Story Decisions Movies Them Origin Set

One of the great advantages of the study of old Norse or Icelandic literature is the insight given by it into the origin of world-wide superstitions. Norse tradition is transparent as glacier ice, and its origin is as unmistakable. Sabine Baring-Gould

Great Old World-Wide Unmistakable Insight Given Superstitions Glacier Study Advantages Tradition Literature Ice Transparent Origin

It is impious to say that evil has its origin from God, because naught contrary is produced by the contrary. Life does not generate death, nor is darkness the beginning of light, nor is disease the maker of health, but in the changes of conditions there are transitions from one condition to the contrary. Saint Basil

Life Death God Health Darkness Light Evil Beginning Changes Say Generate Because Maker Does Nor Condition Conditions Contrary Disease Transitions Produced Naught Origin

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