"I do think that we are an overmedicated society."

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Source : "The Truth About Drug Companies". MotherJones.com Interview, www.motherjones.com. August 31, 2004.

Marcia Angell

#Thinking Quotes

“Here's the secret of writing: there is no secret.”
“Though an inheritance of acres may be bequeathed, an inheritance of knowledge and wisdom cannot. The wealthy man may pay others for doing his work for him; but it is impossible to get his thinking done for him by another, or to purchase any kind of self-culture.”
“My serve and my forehand I pretty much always had, but my backhand was a made backhand. I worked on it for years.”
“This is our world and we need the same things to survive. If I'm making my life better and the circumstances of your life worse, that's terrible because in the end it will affect me, too.”
“Every relationship of domination, of exploitation, of oppression is by definition violent, whether or not the violence is expressed by drastic means. In such a relationship, dominator and dominated alike are reduced to things- the former dehumanized by an excess of power, the latter by a lack of it. And things cannot love.”
“Life is probably a tangle of love and hate permanently knotted together.”

Source : Gao Xingjian (2000). “Soul Mountain”
“All the world's not a stage.”
“As my editor had no desire to frighten readers with the Romanian pages, he had them translated and published the whole thing in French in 1984. It was only years later, in Romania, that I was able to publish the book as I wrote it.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

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