"By the time the plane was airborne I'd forgotten England even existed."

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Alex Garland

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“Her [Rosalind Franklin] devotion to research showed itself at its finest in the last months of her life. Although stricken with an illness which she knew would be fatal, she continued to work right up to the end.”
“One cannot be pessimistic about the West. This is the native home of hope. When it fully learns that cooperation, not rugged individualism, is the quality that most characterizes and preserves it, then it will have achieved itself and outlived its origins. Then it has a chance to create a society to match its scenery.”

Source : "Wallace Stegner, the Rural West, and Me" by John McChesney, web.stanford.edu. July 05, 2011.
“In short, is not liberty the freedom of every person to make full use of his faculties, so long as he does not harm other persons while doing so?”
“There is no such thing as a Palestinian.”
“Modern medicine, for all its advances, knows less than 10 percent of what your body knows instinctively.”
“With emotional abuse, the insults, insinuations, criticism, and accusations slowly eat away at the victimâ€™s self-esteem until he or she is incapable of judging a situation realistically. He or she may begin to believe that there is something wrong with them or even fear they are losing their mind. They have become so beaten down emotionally that they blame themselves for the abuse.”
“How many more years I shall be able to work on the problem I do not know; I hope, as long as I live. There can be no thought of finishing, for 'aiming at the stars' both literally and figuratively, is a problem to occupy generations, so that no matter how much progress one makes, there is always the thrill of just beginning.”
“Fortunately, at the last hour, there were always a few soldiers to save Civilization.”

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