"When the sun shouts and people abound One thinks there were the ages of stone and the age of bronze And the iron age; iron the unstable metal; Steel made of iron, unstable as his mother; the tow-ered-up cities Will be stains of rust on mounds of plaster. Roots will not pierce the heaps for a time, kind rains will cure them, Then nothing will remain of the iron age And all these people but a thigh-bone or so, a poem Stuck in the world's thought, splinters of glass In the rubbish dumps, a concrete dam far off in the mountain..."

-- Robinson Jeffers

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“What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it - the process of learning huge volumes of information about disease, of learning a specialized language, can ironically make one lose sight of the patient one came to serve; empathy can be replaced by cynicism.”

Source : "'Literature about medicine may be all that can save us'" by Andrew Solomon, www.theguardian.com. April 22, 2016.
“You know what the best kind of organic certification would be? Make an unannounced visit to a farm and take a good long look at the farmerâ€™s bookshelf. Because what youâ€™re feeding your emotions and thoughts is what this is really all about. The way I produce a chicken is an extension of my worldview. You can learn more about that by seeing whatâ€™s sitting on my bookshelf than having me fill out a whole bunch of forms.”
“We obtain things when we no longer want them.”

Source : Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.179, Transaction Publishers
“No member of the faithful could possibly deny that the Church is competent in her magisterium to interpret the natural moral law.”
“If someone messes with me, I'm going to mess with them.”
“Our goal was to win, to win a Super Bowl, but also to win in the right way, to be role models to our community, to represent Indianapolis, the state of Indiana and the National Football League.”
“Many people who excel are self-taught.”
“Leave each one his touch of folly; it helps to lighten life's burden which, if he could see himself as he is, might be too heavy to carry.”

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