"I sometimes think that we expect too much resolution in this world."

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Source : Source: www.wbur.org

Jane Alison

#Thinking Quotes #World Quotes #Too Much Quotes

“Endemic is a very hard, a very wide ranging word. I also have to be very careful not to prejudice the course of justice that is taking place now.”
“We have never really had absolute privacy with our records or our electronic communications - government agencies have always been able to gain access with appropriate court orders.”
“dogma and shrinking from the external world are at one limit of the range of belief. At the other are science and poetry and, indeed, reality.”
“Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.”
“I'm always surprised when I read a story that's reported from a great distance.”

Source : "From captivity to classroom". Interview with Christina Pazzanese, news.harvard.edu. September 12, 2016.
“I don't think that we necessarily lie. I mean, we make our living by pretending that we're someone else. I don't tell tall tales. I always tell the truth.”

Source : Interview with Paul Fischer, "Dark Horizons", December 2, 2003.
“As we're bombarded daily with new ads for pills, diets and ab-doers, we have to protect our wallets and our time.”

Source : Dan John (2009). “Never Let Go”, p.266, On Target Publications
“Falling in love, although it resulted in altered body chemistry and was therefore real, was a hormonally induced delusional state, according to him. In addition it was humiliating, because it put you at a disadvantage, it gave the love object too much power. As for sex per se, it lacked both challenge and novelty, and was on the whole a deeply imperfect solution to the problem of intergenerational genetic transfer.”

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