"The deviation of man from the state in which he was originally placed by nature seems to have proved to him a prolific source of diseases"

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Source : An Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of the Variolae Vaccinae, or Cow-Pox

Edward Jenner

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“Does he think to scare me? Arya kissed him where his nose should be and plucked the grave worm from his eye to eat it, but it melted like a shadow in her hand. The yellow skull was melting too, and the kindliest old man that she had ever seen was smiling down on her. "No one has ever tried to eat my worm before," he said. "Are you hungry, child?" Yes, she thought, but not for food.”
“If you lie to your husband - even about something so banal as how much you drink - each lie is a brick in a wall going up between you, and when he tells you he loves you, it's deflected away.”
“Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.”
“Every album is difficult. If it was easy, we'd make one a month.”
“The problem is the way we let our desires stand in the way of our enjoyment of what we already have.”

Source : Brad Warner (2015). “Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies and the Truth About Reality”, p.75, Simon and Schuster
“We normally learn at least as much from our mistakes as we do from our successes. The best development driver/engineer I ever knew once told me that he reckoned that about 20% of his bright ideas worked.”
“It's a weird thing. Reservations were meant to be prisons, you know? Indians were supposed to move onto reservations and die. We were supposed to disappear. But somehow or another, Indians have forgotten the reservations were meant to be death camps.”

Source : Sherman Alexie (2016). “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian”, p.192, Random House
“People often avoid making decisions out of fear of making a mistake. Actually the failure to make decisions is one of life's biggest mistakes.”

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