"What does he [Pope Francis] mean, "Who am I to judge?" People think he's fantastic, but they also wonder how some of these pieces fit."

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Source : Source: www.bostonglobe.com

Ralph Martin

#Mean Quotes #Thinking Quotes #People Quotes

“Though the parallel is not complete, it is safe to say that science will never touch them unaided by its practical applications. Its wonders may be catalogued for purposes of education, they may be illustrated by arresting experiments, by numbers and magnitudes which startle or fatigue the imagination but they will form no familiar portion of the intellectual furniture of ordinary men unless they be connected, however remotely, with the conduct of ordinary life.”
“In the laboratory, we call this the six-degrees-of-separation-from-cancer rule: you can ask any biological question, no matter how seemingly distant-what makes the heart fail, or why worms age, or even how birds learn songs-and you will end up, in fewer than six genetic steps, connecting with a proto-oncogene or tumor suppressor.”
“Human beings really are this virus upon the earth, and the earth's running a fever, you know? If you step away from that kind of inherent human sentimentality and just look at it neutrally, the universe is neutral morally.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“The public is always good.”
“You canâ€™t understand light unless you understand darkness, because thatâ€™s where life is most often lived â€“ somewhere between the two. Itâ€™s messy and itâ€™s beautiful all at the same time,”
“For the entire decade of my 30s and the early part of my 40s, I didn't write a word of fiction. I just left behind a dream of my life.”
“I'm very honest - brutally honest. I always look at things from their point of view as well as mine. And I know when to walk away.”
“It seems that jazz is more cerebral and more mathematical in a sense.”

Source : Interview with Donna Kimura, www.jazzreview.com. January 29, 2011.

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