"Palaeontological research exhibits, beyond question, the phenomenon of provinces in time, as well as provinces in space."

-- Edward Forbes

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“...those who sit at their work and are therefore called 'chair workers,' such as cobblers and tailors, suffer from their own particular diseases ... [T]hese workers ... suffer from general ill-health and an excessive accumulation of unwholesome humors caused by their sedentary life ... so to some extent counteract the harm done by many days of sedentary life. On the association between chronic inactivity and poor health. Ramazzini urged that workers should at least exercise on holidays”
“Theater is the best. That's where you get the work done. You just really get in there and figure something out about a story or a character or life or the world. That's where magic stuff happens.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not.”
“As long as I can make them laugh, it doesnâ€™t matter how, Iâ€™ll be alright. If I succeed in that, the human beings probably wonâ€™t mind it too much if I remain outside their lives. The one thing I must avoid is becoming offensive in their eyes: I shall be nothing, the wind, the sky.”

Source : Osamu Dazai (1973). “No Longer Human”, p.13, New Directions Publishing
“Marriage is not only a package of benefits - it's a status.”

Source : "Ask the Author Live: Amy Davidson on Gay Marriage". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. August 20, 2010.
“Marriage is a very strange thing. It's a very public institution, it's meant to tell the world that two people are going to live together, to declare that their children will be legal, that these children can inherit their property. It's meant for social living, to ensure that some rules are observed, so that men and women don't cross the lines drawn from them. At the same time, marriage is an intensely private affair, no outsider will know the state of some one else's marriage. It's a closed room, a locked room...”
“We cannot get to where we dream of being tomorrow unless we change our thinking today.”
“When David killed Goliath, Mae Young called the cops.”

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