"A Rescuer isn't always a person. Addictions to alcohol or drugs, sexual addiction, workaholism-all the ways we numb out-can rescue the Victim from feeling his or her own feelings."

-- David Emerald Womeldorff

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“I create my own schedule, so you start out each day and you say, "Okay, from 10 to 11 I'm going to write," and on the dot at 10, I went downstairs, got dressed like I was going to work, and at 11 I stopped. I don't know why, what kind of wizardry about that worked, but having the structure for a month, I was dishing out songs.”
“Sometimes itâ€™s not how much light you use to get an effect, itâ€™s how little you use and still make it work. There are a lot of rules to be broken in photography, and youâ€™ve got to have courage.”
“I was quite creative at school, and was also interested in fashion , but I was shy - I'm still not the loudest of people, believe it or not.”

Source : "Kirsty Gallacher: my Saturday job" by Mark King, www.theguardian.com. March 2, 2012.
“Passing into practical life, illustrations of this fact are found everywhere; the distant, or the unseen, steadies and strengthens us against the rapid whirl of things around us.”
“If the organisms in a species now have trait T, and this trait now helps those organisms to survive and reproduce because the trait has effect E, a natural hypothesis to consider is that T evolved in the lineage leading to those current organisms because T had effect E. This hypothesis is "natural," but it often isn't true!”
“Take not into your ear that scum of hell that people call tittle-tattle. Whosoever willingly listens to a slander is equally guilty with the one who tells it, and an old writer says they ought both to be hanged; the one by the tongue and the other by the ear. Do not smile upon such a spaniel, lest like a pleased dog, he puts his dirty paw upon you.”
“I have never for one instant seen clearly within myself. How then would you have me judge the deeds of others?”
“It will be found that everything depends on the composition of the forces with which the particles of matter act upon one another; and from these forces, as a matter of fact, all phenomena of Nature take their origin.”

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