"When luck ain't with you it's against you." ~pg 92"

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Patrick Ness

“Heraclitus somewhere says that all things are in process and nothing stays still, and likening existing things to the stream of a river he says that you would not step twice into the same river.”
“people share a common nature but are trained in gender roles.”
“The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.”
“Homeopathy may be defined as a specious mode of doing nothing. While it waits on the natural progress of disease and the restorative tendence of nature on the one hand, or the injurious advance of disease on the other, it supplies the craving for activity, on the part of the patient and his friends, by the formal and regular administration of nominal medicine. Although homeopathy will, at some future time, be classed with historical delusions.”

Source : Jacob Bigelow (1867). “Modern Inquiries, Classical, Professional, and Miscellaneous”, p.231
“Einstein explained his theory to me every day, and on my arrival I was fully convinced that he understood it.”

Source : Attributed to Chaim Weizmann, after a long trans-Atlantic journey; "Simpson's Contemporary Quotations" credits Nigel Calder, "Einstein's Universe", 1979.
“On recent events in a New York hotel room: What happened was not just inappropriate, it was more than that, it was a fault; a fault toward my wife, my children, my friends but also a fault toward the French people who placed in me their hope for change.”
“Too many bright colors make for congestion. Too many bright colors need, above all, contrast in value, to eliminate vibration.”
“Prince Rhaegar loved his Lady Lyanna, and thousands died for it.”

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