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Casual cruelty; the wearing of essential oils.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, September 2014 source ↗
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Richard Feynman
Theoretical physicist; Nobel laureate in Physics, 1965
I would like to add something that’s not essential to the science, but something I kind of believe, which is that you should not fool the layman when you’re talking as a scientist.
Lack of empathy.
Craig Charles
English actor
Selfishness and cruelty.
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An “elastic” sense of time (fancy way of saying I am late a lot).
To lose the ability to do my work.
My uncle, Edward Wood Dunham. He has Parkinson’s disease and faces every day with bravery, humor, and a gin-and-tonic.
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