"So do we discover, in the world, that our worst fears are unfulfilled; yet we must fear, in order that we may feel delight."

-- Peter Ackroyd

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“The genome is a book that wrote itself, continually adding, deleting and amending over four billion years.”
“And now for the vapor-bath: on a framework of three sticks, meeting at the top, they stretch pieces of woolen cloth, taking care to get the joints as perfect as they can, and inside this little tent they put a dish with red-hot stones in it. Then they take some hemp seed, creep into the tent, and throw the seed on to the hot stones. At once it begins to smoke, giving off a vapor unsurpassed by any vapor-bath one could find in Greece. The Sythians enjoy it so much that they howl with pleasure. This is their substitute for an ordinary bath in water, which they never use.”
“I now know that experience comes to us for a purpose, and if we follow the guidance of the spirit within us, we will probably find that the purpose is a good one.”
“Those who have least to do are generally the most busy people in the world.”
“I blame my dad for my sweet tooth. His motto was 'Life is short; eat dessert first.' How can I argue with that?”

Source : Wendy Mass (2008). “Jeremy Fink and the meaning of life”
“It is the people who have no say in making wars who suffer from the consequences of them.”
“It is not worth the paper it is written on unless it is backed by the kind of force that will make the other side consider the penalties too heavy to break the agreement.”
“Sometimes, when I look at my children, I say to myself, 'Lillian, you should have remained a virgin.'”

Source : 1977 In Woman magazine, 9 Apr.

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