"Fear is the friction in all transitions."

-- Rachel Naomi Remen

#Fear Quotes #Transition Quotes #Friction Quotes

“Photography is 10% inspiration and 90% moving furniture.”
“A reduction in meat consumption is the most powerful single act that you can take to halt the destruction of our environment and preserve our natural resources.”
“Incapable of enjoying the moment, the male needs something to look forward to, and money provides him with an eternal, never-ending goal: Just think of what you could do with 80 trillion dollars -- invest it! And in three years time you'd have 300 trillion dollars!!!”

Source : Valerie Solanas (1971). “SCUM manifesto”
“I stopped watching for ridicule, the scorpion's tail hidden in his words. He said what he meant; he was puzzled if you did not. Some people might have mistaken this for simplicity. But is it not a sort of genius to cut always to the heart?”

Source : Madeline Miller (2011). “The Song of Achilles”, p.48, A&C Black
“I do not think science has to make any apologies. It looks at the world and tells it like it is. And we all live longer, better lives because of this dispassionate view. Sure, it commands awe and provides inspiration. Still, I would rather be operated on by a surgeon who sees me as an assemblage of atoms than one who lovingly tries to manipulate what he or she imagines are my vital energy fields.”
“There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual.”

Source : Catherine Drinker Bowen (1959). “Adventures of a Biographer”, Boston : Little, Brown
“An administration, like a machine, does not create. It carries on.”
“God's definition of success is really one of the significant differences our lives can make in the lives of others.”

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