"I think Haiti is a place that suffers so much from neglect that people only want to hear about it when itâ€™s at its extreme. And thatâ€™s what they end up knowing about it."

-- Edwidge Danticat

#Thinking Quotes #Knowing Quotes #People Quotes

“Until we can receive with an open heart, we are never really giving with an open heart.”
“You only know that youâ€™re in love when you suffer.”
“Hellenic science is a victory of rationalism, which appears greater, not smaller, when one is made to realize that it had been won in spite of the irrational beliefs of the Greek people; all in all, it was a triumph of reason in the face of unreason. Some knowledge of Greek superstitions is needed not only for a proper appreciation of that triumph but also for the justification of occasional failures, such as the many Platonic aberrations.”
“I have always been a very passionate player and person. I often wear my emotions on my sleeve, sometimes for better, sometimes for worse. I hope that my teammates always respect that of me, as I trust they know my commitment to winning.?”
“One of the important principles I live by is the idea that you have to contemplate yourself as surrounded by the conditions you intend to produce.”
“Once a child is confronted with the concept of death there's a certain innocence that goes.”

Source : "Patsy Kensit: My family values". Interview With Helen Carroll, www.theguardian.com. February 25, 2011.
“I knew no one in this business, and the only acting I'd ever done was in a first-grade play. I understood some of my talents - growing up playing piano, and my operatic voice led me to All-State in my first, and only, year of singing - but I didn't yet know all of my capacities. My parents felt helpless, as they knew nothing about this world and couldn't help me in any way except through pure love.”
“As soon as we touch the complex processes that go on in a living thing, be it plant or animal, we are at once forced to use the methods of this science [chemistry]. No longer will the microscope, the kymograph, the scalpel avail for the complete solution of the problem. For the further analysis of these phenomena which are in flux and flow, the investigator must associate himself with those who have labored in fields where molecules and atoms, rather than multicellular tissues or even unicellular organisms, are the units of study.”

Source : John Jacob Abel, Otto Folin, Theobald Smith (1915). “Experimental and chemical studies of the blood: with an appeal for more extended chemical training for the biological and medical investigator”

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