Alistair Cooke

Person · Open Library

Born

1908

Died

2004

Works

126

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United States

Active from

1931-01-22

Active to

1964-12-11

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

200

Total plays

2,905

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. A global reference for human genetic variation

   · 2015 · cited 17,798x

2. Dementia prevention, intervention, and care: 2020 report of the Lancet Commission

   · 2020 · cited 9,240x

3. Genome-wide association study of 14,000 cases of seven common diseases and 3,000 shared controls

   · 2007 · cited 7,930x

4. Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC

   · 2012 · cited 6,796x

5. UniProt: the Universal Protein Knowledgebase in 2023

   · 2022 · cited 6,771x

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Quotes

• “In life no such colour brightened the grey picture of a man devoted to the daily study of warfare on several continents with all the ardour of a certified public accountant.”
• “Some people say we are on the verge of the Second Civil War. And it may be so. But even on the darkest days, cheerfulness kept breaking in. I am not by nature a 'Whither America?' man.”
• “All Presidents start out pretending to run a crusade but after a couple of years they find they are running something less heroic and much more intractable: namely, the presidency.”
• “LSD ... is one of the company of drugs now known as hallucinogens, and there is no doubt that in some people it produces exquisite visions. The big question is whether they are of the outer or inner world, whether in fact they heighten or deepen reality or fool the taker into believing that the kind of vision a madman sees is the real world that convention, habit, or sheer blunting of instinct hide from him.”
• “To the goggling unbeliever Texans say — as people always say about their mangier dishes — "but it's just like chicken, only tenderer." Rattlesnake is, in fact, just like chicken, only tougher.”
• “(The Negro) is a permanent invalid in American society. And the places he lives, whether in the town or the country, are its casualty wards. (p. 146.)”

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