"The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us, is a direct result of the asymmetry of the universe or of its indirect consequences. The universe is asymmetric. Acknowledging the role of molecules that have stereoisomers, some the mirror image of the others, and microorganisms whose chemistry prefers only one of those forms."

-- Louis Pasteur

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“A Congresswoman must look like a girl, act like a lady, think like a man, speak on any given subject with authority and most of all work like a dog.”
“When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. It's like death.”

Source : "Quaid: Split From Ryan Was 'Like Death'". W Magazine Interview, abcnews.go.com. July 19, 2001.
“I think that technology has both introduced new sounds but also allowed an increasingly painterly approach to recording music as you can now paint over what you've done and more and more refine an existing performance.”
“I don't believe in the end that God gave me cancer, but He certainly could have stopped it and didn't.”
“But there were too many points at which the other self could invade the self he wanted to preserve, and there were too many forms of invasion: certain words, sounds, lights, actions his hands or feet performed, and if he did nothing at all, heard and saw nothing, the shouting of some triumphant inner voice that shocked him and cowed him.”

Source : Patricia Highsmith (2001). “Strangers on a Train”, p.190, W. W. Norton & Company
“If countries were named after the words you first hear when you go there, England would have to be called Damn It.”
“Man is so perfectable and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.”
“... all Americans are the prisoners of racial prejudice.”

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