"If you talk to geneticists they are constantly finding that your genes are being switched on and off because of the environment. Genes alone do not determine an exact path in your life."

-- Jeffrey Eugenides

#Path Quotes #Environment Quotes #Genes Quotes

“I frequently hear music in the heart of noise.”

Source : Letter to Isaac Goldberg in "The Memory of All That" by Joan Peyser (p. 80), 1993.
“I've never let my school interfere with my education.”
“The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go, she went.”
“A preposition is a word You mustn't end a sentence with!”
“In fifty years time, the need for true psychics and conscious mediums (such as H.P.B., for instance [Helena Petrova Blavatsky]) will be very great if the Masters' plans are to be carried through to fruition, and the movement must be set on foot in preparation for the coming of Him for Whom all nations wait”
“Her mother was a Rutherford. The family came over in the ark, and were connected by marriage with Henry the VIII. On her father's side they date back further than Adam. On the topmost branches of her family tree there's a superior breed of monkeys with very fine silky hair and extra long tails.”
“It depends on the consent of the people to decide whether kings or consuls or other magistrates are to be established in authority over them, and if there is legitimate cause, the people can change a kingdom into an aristocracy, or an aristocracy into a democracy, and vice versa, as we read was done in Rome.”
“For me, awards are not what I really care about - the work is what I really care about. And, I am especially proud that I was acknowledged for doing work that I was so proud of and that meant a lot to me.”

Source : Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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