"I was terrified that the wild boar might be attacking my father, and so I prayed to God - if he existed - to protect him and to direct the boar against my uncle instead, who believed in heaven, and therefore was more willing to die."

-- Marcel Pagnol

#Uncles Quotes #Father Quotes #Heaven Quotes

“I wasn’t getting obliterated, but I was getting a kick. I was very method on that. That’s why I’d have gone along with it [if Tom had hit her]. But Tom was like: ‘Oh my God – I hope you don’t murder me!’”
“A trumpet sounds pretty much like a trumpet, and that's true of a lot instruments; pianos sound like pianos, but there's something about the guitar - the range of possibilities is much broader.”
“There is no means of testing which decision is better, because there is no basis for comparison. We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always like a sketch. No, "sketch" is not quite a word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch for nothing, an outline with no picture.”
“Imagination means nothing without doing.”
“Just as children, step by step, must separate from their parents, we will have to separate from them. And we will probably suffer...from some degree of separation anxiety: because separation ends sweet symbiosis. Because separation reduces our power and control. Because separation makes us feel less needed, less important. And because separation exposes our children to danger.”
“The dioxin story is the story of how science has failed to provide us with answers, how corporations control policymaking and decisions in our society, and how government is silenced.”

Source : Lois Marie Gibbs, Citizen's Clearinghouse for Hazardous Wastes (Arlington, Va.) (1995). “Dying from Dioxin: A Citizen's Guide to Reclaiming Our Health and Rebuilding Democracy”, p.1, South End Press
“Giving Love to Others is Directly Related to How Much Love you Have for Yourself!”
“In fact, many children come to autism clinics early on with GI/bowel disturbances.”

Source : "Big Think Panel Discussion on Autism". Interview with Susan Wilczynski, bigthink.com.

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