"You chose love like a belief, a faith, a place, a box for one's heart to knock against like a spook in the house."

-- Lorrie Moore

#Heart Quotes #House Quotes #Belief Quotes

“This is a whole new era where we're moving beyond little edits on single genes to being able to write whatever we want throughout the genome. The goal is to be able to change it as radically as our understanding permits.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org
“Drizzt had always suspected it, but now it was confirmed, that "welcome" was his favortie word in the Common Tongue, and a word, he understood with no equivalent in the language of the drow.”
“As long as I can remember I feel I have had this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined. My brain becomes magnetized with this dominating force which I hold in my hand.”
“I believe that prayer is our powerful contact with the greatest force in the universe.”
“While we read history we make history.”

Source : George William Curtis (1894). “Orations and Addresses”
“By showing a picture, you're showing an x-ray of your heart.”
“We live in a community of people not so that we can suppress and dominate eachother or make each other miserable but so that we can better and more reliably satisfy all life's healthy needs.”
“The recovery movementis not primarily addressed to people who always knew about their sexual victimization. Its main intendedaudience is women who aren't at all sure that they were molested, and its purpose is to convince them of that face and embolden them to act upon it. As for genuine victims, the comfort they are proffered may look attractive at first, but it is of debatable long value.”

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