"My Dad was overweight and unhealthy, and he died young. I wasn't going to let that happen to me."

-- Jack LaLanne

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“Nursing is a kind of mania; a fever in the blood; an incurable disease which, once contracted, cannot be got out of the system. If it was not like that, there would be no hospital nurses, for compared dispassionately with other professions, the hours are long, the work hard, and the pay inadequate to the amount of concentrated energy required. A nurse, however, does not view her profession dispassionately. It is too much a part of her.”
“The more that social democracy develops, grows, and becomes stronger, the more the enlightened masses of workers will take their own destinies, the leadership of their movement, and the determination of its direction into their own hands.”
“We have to come back to something like ordinary language after all when we want to talk "about" mathematics!”

Source : Harold Jeffreys, Bertha Jeffreys (1999). “Methods of Mathematical Physics”, p.2, Cambridge University Press
“The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.”

Source : Rachel Carson (2002). “Silent Spring”, p.19, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you”
“I went to a psychologist friend and said if 500 people claimed to see Jesus after he died, it was just a hallucination. He said hallucinations are an individual event. If 500 people have the same hallucination, that's a bigger miracle than the resurrection.”
“Each one of us needs time and space for recollection, meditation and calmness.... Thanks be to God that this is so! In fact, this need tells us that we are not made for work alone, but also to think, to reflect or even simply to follow with our minds and our hearts a tale, a story in which to immerse ourselves, in a certain sense to lose ourselves to find ourselves subsequently enriched.”
“Every ship should have a cat.”

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