"At the bottom of the ocean, bacteria that are thermophilic and can survive at the steam vent heat that would otherwise produce, if fish were there, sous-vide cooked fish, nevertheless, have managed to make that a hospitable environment for them."

-- Harvey V. Fineberg

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“Imitation both unconscious and conscious is par excellence the educational method of the family. It is plain that a considerable part of the adaptation of living beings to their environment, i.e., of beings that are born plastic, is passed on from generation to generation through imitation. Were this not so, much if not all of the road traversed by one generation would have to be travelled by the next generation from the very beginning and without short-cuts. Consequently there would be little chance for the novel adaptation, the propitious individual variation, that constitutes progress.”
“A mental disease has swept the planet: banalization presented with the alternative of love or a garbage disposal unit, young people of all countries have chosen the garbage disposal unit.”
“A healthy dialogue is always good.”
“I want to thank all the shoulders of the strong and brave and courageous women that I am standing on,”

Source : "Billie Holiday: A Singer Beyond Our Understanding". www.npr.org. April 7, 2015.
“It's not weird to look at yourself in the mirror at the gym - that's why they're there! You have to make sure that you're doing things right.”

Source : FaceBook post by Yoko Ono from Feb 19, 2014
“It is enough to make anybody's blood bile in thier vains to think how different sin is looked upon in a man and woman. I say sin is sin, and you can't make goodness out of it by parsin' it in the masculine gender, no more'n you can by parsin' it in the feminine or neutral.”

Source : Marietta Holley (1875). “My Opinions and Betsy Bobbet's: Designed as a Beacon Light, to Guide Women to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness, But which May be Read by Members of the Sterner Sect, Without Injury to Themselves Or the Book”, p.113
“A simple but radical spiritual practice is to accept whatever arises in the Now, within and without.”
“In the ambiguity and shifting playing field of adult life, I often wish I could just fill in a dot and have someone say â€œYesâ€ and hand me a chicken leg, or â€œNoâ€ and slap me with an old fish.”

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