"Disease may score a direct hit on only one member of a family, but shrapnel tears the flesh of the others."

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Source : Betty Rollin (2008). “Last Wish”, p.122, PublicAffairs

Betty Rollin

#Tears Quotes #May Quotes #Disease Quotes

“But the transformation of consciousness undertaken in Taoism and Zen is more like the correction of faulty perception or the curing of a disease. It is not an acquisitive process of learning more and more facts or greater and greater skills, but rather an unlearning of wrong habits and opinions. As Lao-tzu said, "The scholar gains every day, but the Taoist loses every day.”
“You can have results or excuses. Not both.”
“I love to promote our sport. I love grass-roots tennis. I love coaching. I love all parts of the sport. I love the business side.”
“Science is a perception of the world around us. Science is a place where what you find in nature pleases you.”
“With the assumption that animation is a medium for children, I want to make movies that reaffirm the future, and let them know that this world is a world worth living in.”
“I had no plans to be an entrepreneur. I just wanted to be a journalist and write for a magazine. At 15, I just decided to leave school and launch a national student magazine.”
“We are all different, but when we ask for the Lord's blessings, we must not forget that God created us equal.”

Source : "Vladimir Putin says USA not so special". Interview with Ben Knight, www.abc.net.au. September 13, 2013.
“You can't take responsibility for everything. You can't have that kind of control At some point, it's all out of our hands.”

Source : "Faye Dunaway: What I've Learned" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. April 28, 2015.

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