"I read things like theology, and I read about science, Scientific American and publications like that, because they stimulate again and again my sense of the almost arbitrary given-ness of experience, the fact that nothing can be taken for granted."

-- Marilynne Robinson

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“When I walk, I try to set a fairly brisk rate. I love walking outside. I hate machines like treadmills. The path that I have chosen to walk is just city streets, but you see pretty houses, trees... my routes have some hills in them; it's not just straight walking. You have to exercise your heart and lungs.”

Source : Source: 55plusmag.us
“There is a comfort with design that may be a detail, rather than a building; comfort with form that is time-released and never finished. How do you represent an instruction set that will play out in time? There may be slightly different kinds of documents for representing those forms, and different skills for advocating change outside of our fee-for-service habits.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Science tries to answer the question: "How?" How do cells act in the body? How do you design an airplane that will fly faster thansound? How is a molecule of insulin constructed? Religion, by contrast, tries to answer the question: "Why?" Why was man created? Why ought I to tell the truth? Why must there be sorrow or pain or death? Science attempts to analyze how things and people and animals behave; it has no concern whether this behavior is good or bad, is purposeful or not. But religion is precisely the quest for such answers: whether an act is right or wrong, good or bad, and why.”
“One in four kids have either pre-diabetes or diabetes - what I like to call diabesity. How did this happen?”

Source : "Skinny Fat People: Why Being Skinny Doesn’t Protect Us Against Diabetes and Death" by Mark Hyman, M.D., www.huffingtonpost.com. June 10, 2012.
“Many Americans are very concerned with the lack of vetting that is going on.”
“Love and friendship. They are what make us who we are, and what can change us, if we let them.”

Source : Emily Giffin (2010). “Something Blue: A Novel”, p.348, Macmillan
“I could write historical fiction, or science fiction, or a mystery but since I find it fascinating to research the clues of some little know period and develop a story based on that, I will probably continue to do it.”
“I don't like human nature, but I do like human beings.”

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