"No doubt one may quote history to support any cause, as the devil quotes scripture; but modern history is not a very satisfactory side-arm in political polemics; it grows less and less so."

-- Learned Hand

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“Our task now is to resynthesize biology; put the organism back into its environment; connect it again to its evolutionary past; and let us feel that complex flow that is organism, evolution, and environment united. The time has come for biology to enter the nonlinear world.”

Source : "A New Biology for a New Century" by Carl Woese, mmbr.asm.org. June 1, 2004.
“The adoption of the required attitude of mind towards ideas that seem to emerge "of their own free will" and the abandonment of the critical function that is normally in operation against them seem to be hard of achievement for some people. The "involuntary thoughts" are liable to release a most violent resistance, which seeks to prevent their emergence. If we may trust that great poet and philosopher Friedrich Schiller, however, poetic creation must demand an exactly similar attitude.”
“Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.”
“Don't use your words to describe the situation. Use your words to change the situation.”

Source : Twitter post from Nov 09, 2016
“To be free from the possibility of discouragements would be more â€˜spiritualâ€™ than Jesus-and therefore not truly spiritual at all.”
“The restaurant industry is brutal.”
“I'm only rich because I know when I'm wrong...I basically have survived by recognizing my mistakes.”
“The school as a means of education to me was simply a blank.”

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