"While nobody has identified any gene for religion, there are certainly some candidate genes that may influence human personality and confer a tendency to religious feelings. Some of the genes likely to be involved are those which control levels of different chemicals called neurotransmitters in the brain."

-- Robert Winston

#Religious Quotes #Personality Quotes #Feelings Quotes

“The main stem was then in most cases twisted in a zigzag form, which process checked the flow of the sap, and at the same time encouraged the production of side branches at those parts of the stem where they were most desired.”

Source : Robert Fortune (1853). “Two visits to the tea countries of China and the british tea plantations in the Himalaya”, p.74
“It is brought home to you...that it is only because miners sweat their guts out that superior persons can remain superior.”
“I remember when I thought of singing as the bit that went between the guitar playing - something I couldn't wait to get out of the way. Singing was originally like a chore that I didn't really enjoy.”
“There's all kinds of those moments in your life where either through a weird set of circumstances, or a song you hear, or a smell you smell, or one person says something totally out of the context without the meaning that you assigned to it, but you snap back to the way you were when you were 14 or 15. We all deal with that.”
“Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.”
“I learned to walk as a baby, and I haven't had a lesson since.”
“The importance of pedestrian public spaces cannot be measured, but most other important things in life cannot be measured either: Friendship, beauty, love and loyalty are examples. Parks and other pedestrian places are essential to a city's happiness.”
“It isn't work that makes you tired, it's your mental attitude.”

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