"It was Disney World fused with Cancerland."

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Siddhartha Mukherjee

#Cancer Quotes #World Quotes

“I played a kid's game, I got to do it at the beach, and I was able to support my family. I consider myself incredibly lucky.”
“I'm a goofball and a comedian”
“You have to love what you do, and you have to need it like you need air. And there's nothing else that would give me the same degree of satisfaction as acting, which is why I can't walk away from it.”
“It's much easier to cheat than it is to be loyal. Everyone goes through down times. You just don't put yourself in those situations, you know?”
“Art is the escape from personality.”
“Any single historical event is too complex to be adequately known by anyone. It transcends all the intellectual capacities of men. Our practice is to wait until a sufficient number of details have been forgotten. Of course things seem simpler then! Our memories work that way; we retain the facts which are easiest to think about.”
“General abstract truth is the most precious of all blessings; without it, man is blind; it is the eye of reason.”
“The hijab or a variation of the word shows up eight times in the Quran. And it never means headscarf. And so what's happened is that the identity of a Muslim woman especially is being equated to this piece of cloth on her head. And in that ideology there's a very fundamental assumption that people need to think very deeply about, which is do you believe that a woman is too sexy for her hair?”

Source : "The Case Against Wearing Hijab To Support Muslim Women". "All Things Considered" with Ari Shapiro, www.npr.org. December 22, 2015.

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