If we can map the retina, that will help us understand how it functions in vision, as well as devise new ways of repairing its malfunctions. And if we can really figure out the retina, perhaps we will have a shot at figuring out the vastly more complicated brain.
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Related When We have Patience in our minds and Love in our hearts, Nothing appears to be impossible or unrea... PHILIP T.M Now that we have found that the principle applies in owls as well as monkeys, we can figure out the ... DANIEL WINKOWSKI If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack. CRAIG GROESCHEL [We want to] get new products out there and have new ways to buy them. I think if we manage the top ... STEVE JOBS People see what they want to see SUSAN BETH PFEFFER If we choose only to expose ourselves to opinions and viewpoints that are in line to our own, we bec... BARACK OBAMA If we find life out there, and it's not us, we will deem it not intelligent. But what may be equ... NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON If you look at landscape in historical terms, you realize that most of the time we have been on Eart... BILL VIOLA After the tragedy, New Yorkers are more united than ever in their vision, as well as in appreciation... GEORGE PATAKI Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed ... WALLACE STEGNER The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have. CRAIG GROESCHEL If we can't even figure out how it was that they enacted the threats or moved through that attack, a... TOM DASCHLE If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th... GARY F EVANS... If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y... GARY F EVANS... The more we give, the more we reap the benefits of feeling good in helping others. We are all capabl... ANGIE KARAN They'll basically figure out what the power tables will be in the new restaurant. Then we will figur... DAVID MIDDLETON If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not s... JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI Who cares what are you eating?? Who cares where are you? Who cares what are you posting??<... DEYTH BANGER I think the secret is really observation. Well, if you observe what's going on and try to figure... SAM COOKE We are not repairing that road because of the imminent danger, perhaps, of the Morita dam. I don't w... ROD HARAGA We have a couple of freshmen this year that can be good players, so if I can help them out, it will ... CAMERON EDENS They came out in a zone and made us shoot the ball. We shot the ball as well as we have all season. DUDLEY LYBRAND Only if we understand can we care. Only if we care will we help. Only if we help shall they be saved... JANE GOODALL That competition has helped us. We'll be as prepared as we can be, but the time off will really help... HOWIE HEWITT Hopefully the girls can keep shooting well from the outside. If we do then that will help us a lot. PAUL ALEPRA If you got the DVD you can see that George Lucas has taken that person out, as well as the voice, an... IAN MCDIARMID If the seed doesn't get planted, it can't become a toxic thornbush. We must guard our minds and our ... CRAIG GROESCHEL If he was thrown off a ship, they must have thrown off the raft for him to sit on as well, so I don'... BENGT ALBINSSON If Iraq becomes free and stable, we will have a major oil producing country that can help us stabili... VIC SNYDER We have that problem on this reservation as well. Hopefully, the money we make out of this can go to... BILL BURKE Yes, certainly we will accept (Indian help). We are looking into ways and means as to how this can b... LAKSHMAN KADIRGAMAR It might impact us a little, but as a school you can't let it bother you. The bottom line is that if... BILL CLEARY I think we're getting as much as we can out of Terry and Brock. If the (offensive line) can pick it ... RANDY EDSALL I think this will help us play well. Sometimes when we play at home we can stagnate, but playing in ... GEORGE ARROYO If we can get to $150,000 and figure out a way to close the gap, why can't we get to $230,000 and fi... MICHAEL CASHMAN I think I'll know a lot more. That will give us a good feel of where we're at. We've really got our ... BRENDAN MOSHER If we, as Idahoans, allow that plant to come into the Magic Valley, we have got more pollution comin... DON JESSER It would be incredible to pull a win out of this weekend, but it's not to the point where if we lose... ASHLEIGH KINDER we sat there smoking cigarettes at 5 in the morning. CHARLES BUKOWSKI The universe is so vast, so immense, we can never expect to explore it all. It is in effect, not so ... CHRISTINA ENGELA We all get lost along the way, but hopefully we figure out some sort of path. It helps if you can im... ANNETTE BENING We are running a very strong and effective grassroots campaign. People can look for more of that in ... ZACK SPACE We don't have the vehicle in the marketplace. We don't know what the market reaction is. So first, t... FRANK EWASYSHYN If we're honest, most of us are doing okay. CRAIG GROESCHEL Time stops for no one, and if we allow ourselves to focus on the negative we might miss out on some ... SUSAN SAMAROO We think we are as solid a team as we have ever been. The question is can we produce power numbers a... BRYAN KRAMER We buy new cranks every year. If they gave us a year to mileage out the cranks we have now, we can p... DOUG YATES How will we defend ourselves if the Patriot Act expires? Well, perhaps we could just rely on the Con... RAND PAUL Let's see if we can figure out a way out of here. TOM MURPHY We want to add a fifth receiver if we can. I don't think our philosophy - mine or Ted's - is to just... MIKE SHERMAN It isn't as bad as you sometimes think it is. It all works out. Don't worry. I say that to myself ev... GORDON B. HINCKLEY We as a society have to start figuring out how to do things without using fossil fuel energy. Some o... MIKE PACE We will then need alternative structures, and perhaps altogether different ways of computing. Techni... ANDREAS HEINRICH If deep in our hearts we suspect that God does not love us and cannot manage our affairs as well as ... ELISABETH ELLIOT One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment. If it ... FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Those of us who preach the Scriptures, along with being nourished by it ourselves, have to figure ou... JOHN ORTBERG We're balanced and deep. We don't have great size, but I think we will be all right on the boards if... DAVE JOSEPH I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES In the last century, as we learned more about genes, we were able to devise ways of accelerating evo... NINA FEDOROFF If we can cease envisaging ourselves as metaphorical foetuses, and substitute the image of a newborn... SALMAN RUSHDIE There aren't too many teams out there that we can't compete with, if we hit all our routines as well... BRAD CATTERMOLE … we have bad dreams because our brain is trying to protect us… If we can figure out a way ... DAN POBLOCKI We just haven't put it all together in the same game. If we pitch well, we don't hit. If we hit well... JEFF TODD Things like that are greatly appreciated and helped us because then we had the money to help in othe... JANET M. CURTIS When shame is met with compassion and not received as confirmation of our guilt, we can begin to se... MAUREEN BRADY If you want to help by going down there, call us as soon as you can. We are starting training at 9 a... LISA BROWN The neural processes underlying that which we call creativity have nothing to do with rationality. T... RODOLFO R. LLINáS If we don't fear God, it's because we don't know God. CRAIG GROESCHEL The new well is strictly for Ms. Booth's use and replaces her existing well, which we will properly ... GAIL RYMER This isn't just about helping athletes prevent blisters. We can help diabetics if we can figure out ... LISA HUHMAN Tim had a real nice race for us today. If we can do that at the big meets, we will do very well. BRIAN CORCORAN As much respect as I have for Indiana, they're good. They're not significantly better than we are. A... STEVE FISHER [With its members aging and passing,] the goal now is to try to keep it going as long as we can, ...... ROBERT TAYLOR One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment... If i... FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT The future belongs to all who, refusing to look back at the past move ahead with the clock as it tic... ODO SIMON AGBO The sky is the limit. Everything is so new that I think we can go as far as we want. We need to go o... DAN ABDALLA The history of American patriotism is figuring out ways that we can work together to move forward an... TAYLOR BRANCH It really gets complicated if this rate increase doesn't go through. If we don't get the rate increa... PAUL ADAMS When we see one another as different aspects of ourselves—as ourselves experiencing a different si... JOSEPH P. KAUFFMAN If we ever find out how the brain works, with all its complexity, then we will be able to build a ma... E. L. DOCTOROW We have a tough conference to compete in but we definitely have some individuals that can do very we... AARON NIDA Not if we continue to play as well as we have and people keep stepping up defensively. It can be any... CESAR CUEVAS Well, it just means more that we can pick it out and imagine what we would need if we were in this s... DIANE WHITE The novel can be read simply as a story which you can skip if you want. It can be read as a story yo... MALCOLM LOWRY In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will... S. I. HAYAKAWA If they have a bad start, its a struggle for the night. I don't care what the level of the opponent ... GAVIN MILLER We will push forward as quickly as we can as long as there is a shred of hope that we can get our pe... BEN HATFIELD If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit th... JAMES CONNOLLY The key to our season will be out there on the bump (the pitchers mound). I think we can swing the b... JOEY SATO We haven't quite figured out how to get that up. If we do that, it will help our defense and bring t... TIM ABNEY A couple of customers interrupted [...] who wanted to know if we had some YA book about ants and ali... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON If we can discover the meaning in the trilling of a frog, perhaps we may understand why it is for us... ADRIAN FORSYTH If as individuals we can improve the geography only slightly, if at all, perhaps the more appropriat... ROBERT ADAMS With Marco out we really don't have a lot of options. We're small and we can shoot, so we might as w... MARSHALL STRICKLAND I like to help women help themselves, as that is, in my opinion, the best way to settle the woman qu... LOUISA MAY ALCOTT We think we've pretty adequately covered the area. There will be holes; we're aware of that, and we'... CRAIG UNGER We need to play as well as we can play, perform as hard as we can perform and see what we can get ou... DICK JAURON We will do everything we can to help quench it at its source. DR. JULIE GERBERDING Most people know that when we are faced with an immediate perceived “threat,” adrenaline kicks i... JOSé N. HARRIS I've played with a lot of these guys for a while, and we're pretty close friends. They know that I'm... ERIC BOGDEN
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I was enjoying again the firs... SEBASTIAN VETTEL I remember my first test in F1. After five laps, I came back to the pits and tried to play it cool -... SEBASTIAN VETTEL [Overhearing this, the former head of the International Olympic Committee, Juan Antonio Samaranch, r... SEBASTIAN COE I don't do interviews at home any more because my wife doesn't like having her taste in inte... SEBASTIAN FAULKS During my first Olympics in 1980, at the age of 23, I was physically in great condition but mentally... SEBASTIAN COE Charlie Parker was a genius, as was Lester Young. SEBASTIAN COE I'm like this mercenary actor going from show to show - people love to hire me, but then don'... SEBASTIAN ROCHE Mercedes does beautiful work, absolutely. SEBASTIAN THRUN Maybe the ultimate wound is the one that makes you miss the war you got it in. SEBASTIAN JUNGER I do genuinely believe that young people who play sport at a competitive level, sensibly controlled,... SEBASTIAN COE I get noticed for different things I've done in different areas of town. If I'm in a rock cl... SEBASTIAN BACH A marijuana high can enhance core human mental abilities. It can help you to focus, to remember, to ... SEBASTIAN MARINCOLO If someone thinks I'm posh, it just shows how lowly they are. Some people think I went to Eton. ... SEBASTIAN HORSLEY The thing itself, the first thing, will never do us alone, we must be elaborating, improving, poetic... SEBASTIAN BARRY I'd really love to see a business model for higher education going forward that is actually affo... SEBASTIAN THRUN Twitter is the new rock magazine of the modern age. When I was a kid, we had magazines and journalis... SEBASTIAN BACH I knew immediately something was terribly wrong, but you can know that and not allow the thought in ... SEBASTIAN BARRY Hardware price cuts are necessary not only to drive demand at the end of a console cycle, but also t... 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