"You know you're grown up when summer is just a season."

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Source : Michael Greger (1999). “Heart failure: diary of a third year medical student”

Michael Greger

“Laughter is very young, whereas tragedy, except the very highest of all, quickly becomes haggard.”
“If Id lived prior to the 1980s, it would have been different, because I would have been playing to prove African Americans are equal. Now, I dont necessarily feel I have to play for black people, because obviously theyre doing everything in all sports. If I can go out there and play for myself and not feel I have to stand for something other than what I want to do, thats good.”
“In working on a drawing or a painting, one can rework and rework and rework and change ideas until you get it the way you think is right at that time. With clay that's not possible. You either succeed the first time, or you should wad it up and start over again, because you can't mess around with the clay and still have it fresh.”
“Hogan's Heroes' lasted longer than the war.”
“If we buy into the notion that somehow property rights are less important, or are in conflict with, human or civil rights, we give the socialists a freer hand to attack our property.”
“Justice requires that everyone should have enough to eat. But it also requires that everyone should contribute to the production of food.”
“If love means never having to say you're sorry, then marriage means always having to say everything twice.”
“Circumstances don't always align themselves with human intention.”

Source : Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.52, Penguin

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