"This familiarity with a respected physician and my appreciation of his work, or the tragedy I experienced with the long, tormented agony and death of my mother might have influenced me in wanting to study medicine. It was not the case."

-- Albert Claude

#Mother Quotes #Appreciation Quotes #Agony Quotes

“When you are criticizing someone, you should speak only to your own experience - not others'.”
“Why can you believe the lie, but not the truth?”

Source : "New Moon". Book by Stephenie Meyer, September 6, 2006.
“As much as thinking this upsets me, I'm starting to see that I need the merry-go-round much more than it needs me, and in the end my choice is to hop back on or get left in the dust.”

Source : Wendelin Van Draanen (2011). “The Running Dream”, p.82, Knopf Books for Young Readers
“Love asks for nothing. Only personalities want something.”
“Howard Hughes innovation was in the aviation field. His designs and spirit of experimentation was at the forefront. As far as his work as film producer, he certainly went after a bigger and more ambitious kind of filmmaking, even if he wasn't necessarily a cinema artist.”

Source : Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com
“I have respect for mother nature's methods of robustness (billions of years allow most of what is fragile to break); classical thought is more robust (in its respect for the unknown, the epistemic humility) than the modern post-Enlightenment naÃ¯ve pseudoscientific autism. Thus my classical values make me advocate the triplet of erudition, elegance, and courage; against modernity's phoniness, nerdiness and philistinism”
“A cross could be a shape for expressing something spacious, such as the coordinators of space. That could be called its first significance or its first relevance.”

Source : "Tàpies, Werke auf Papier 1943 - 2003" by Antoni Tapies, Kunsthalle Emden, edited by Achim Sommer, Altana, (p. 27), 2004.
“The First Amendment is not an altar on which we must sacrifice our children, families, and community standards. Obscene material that is not protected by the First Amendment can and must be prohibited.”

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