"The constancy of the internal environment is the condition for free and independent life: the mechanism that makes it possible is that which assured the maintenance, with the internal environment, of all the conditions necessary for the life of the elements."

-- Claude Bernard

#Life Quotes #Independent Quotes #Maintenance Quotes

“I smoke herb, but what's the harm it that?”

Source : Song: Cg 2, Album: Nellyville
“After the spiritual powers, there is no thing in the world more unconquerable than the spirit of nationality.... The spirit of nationality in Ireland will persist even though the mightiest of material powers be its neighbor.”

Source : "The Economics of Ireland and the Policy of the British Government". Book by George William Russell, 1921.
“All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.”
“If you want to support a writer, produce the first five plays he writes.”
“You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.”
“Films are just consumables.”
“Vlad decided that teachers' ideas were a lot like bunches of garlic-intriguing from afar, but up close sadly sickening and, if you weren't careful, DEADLY.”

Source : Heather Brewer (2008). “Eighth Grade Bites #1: The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod”, p.33, Penguin
“There is always anxiety before a competition and it was no different for me today. It was only in the third round, with about 40 targets left, that I realised I could match the world record score.”

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