"I have always been skeptical of medical orthodoxies, because sooner, rather than later, so many of them are turned on their heads. Or, put another way, providing you are prepared to wait it out, what was adjudged bad for you yesterday is likely to prove beneficial today."

-- Mordecai Richler

#Yesterday Quotes #Waiting Quotes #Today Quotes

“Because science flourishes, must poesy decline? The complaint serves but to betray the weakness of the class who urge it. True, in an age like the present,-considerably more scientific than poetical,-science substitutes for the smaller poetry of fiction, the great poetry of truth.”

Source : Hugh Miller, Harriet Myrtle (1859). “Sketch book of popular geology: Popular geology: A series of lectures read before the Philosophical Institution of Edinburgh”, p.123
“I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.”

Source : John Burroughs (1913). “The Writings of John Burroughs. [”
“Obsolete misleading theologies bear the same relation to the essence of true religion that scarlet fever, mumps, and measles do to education.”
“Reading have got the good factor”

Source : "Stupid football quotes: 2012's best gaffes from managers and pundits" by Steve Anglesey, www.mirror.co.uk. December 31, 2012.
“The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside”
“There is a visual narrative that is implicitly understandable even when you don't understand the words and in a good comic, and they are hard to find, but good comics have parallel intertwined narratives.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“I'm a participant in the doctrine of constructive ambiguity.”
“I'm trying to find my own version of what makes me feel beautiful.”

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