"If a person is A) poorly, B) receives treatment intended to make him better, and C) gets better, then no power of reasoning known to medical science can convince him that it may not have been the treatment that restored his health."

-- Peter Medawar

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“Part of George R.R. Martins brilliant storytelling is taking the carpet out from under your feet.”
“The challenge of education is not to prepare a person for success, but to prepare him for failure.”
“I waited tables in New York, and when you're in that line of work, you often have a horrible boss.”
“And if you don't believe the sun will rise, stand alone and greet the coming night in the last remaining light.”
“Rule of art: Cant kills creativity!”
“Great literature is like moral leadership; everyone deplores the lack of it, but there is a tendency to prefer it from the safely dead.”

Source : Shirley Hazzard (2016). “We Need Silence to Find Out What We Think: Selected Essays”, p.67, Columbia University Press
“but ignorance is a kind of insanity in the human animal. People who delight in torturing defenseless children or tiny creatures are in reality insane. The terrible thing is that people who are madmen in private may wear a totally bland and innocent expression in public.”
“I believe in spirits, not ghosts.”

Source : Interview with Jennifer Cox, www.askmen.com.

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