"He walked out of the hospital into the sun, into open air for the first time in months, out of the green-lit rooms that lay like glass in his mind. He stood there breathing everything in, the hurry of everyone. First, he thought, I need shoes with rubber on the bottom. I need gelato."

-- Michael Ondaatje

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“I don't want the chair of the government because it will be controlled by the U.S. and I don't want to be controlled by the U.S.”
“Isn't it strange that we talk least about the things we think about most?”
“It is not better that all felony suspects die than that they escape. Where the suspect poses no immediate threat to the officer and no threat to others, the harm resulting from failing to apprehend him does not justify the use of deadly force to do so. It is no doubt unfortunate when a suspect who is in sight escapes, but the fact that the police arrive a little late or are a little slower afoot does not always justify killing the suspect.”
“Research is a lifelong occupation so it's hard to factor it in, but I reckon most books take 5 months from start to finish.”
“The only way I have ever understood, broken free, emerged, healed, forgiven, flourished, and grown powerful is by asking the hardest questions and then living into the answers through opening up to my own terror and transmuting it into creativity. I have gotten nowhere by retreating into hand-me-down sureties or resisting the tensions that truth ignited.”
“Start believing the Word of God over our feelings. The truth always overrides our feelings. Find the truth in the scriptures.”
“The more we study nature the grander does she appear. Science, by penetrating her secrets, often shows us the hidden and imposing forces exist where we only see inertia.”
“We can look, but we'd better not touch.”

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