"HAPA was like mint. You could rip it up, and six months later, it was back, healthier than ever. Mint smelled better, though, and you could make juleps out of it. I donâ€™t know what I could make out of HAPA. Compost, maybe."

-- Kim Harrison

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“To every object there correspond an ideally closed system of truths that are true of it and, on the other hand, an ideal system of possible cognitive processes by virtue of which the object and the truths about it would be given to any cognitive subject.”
“I havenâ€™t even really tried to win you over, Roza. When I want to, I can be very persuasive.”
“It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines. I take no pleasure in this conclusion, which I reached slowly and reluctantly over my two decades as an editor of The New England Journal of Medicine.”

Source : "Drug Companies & Doctors: A Story of Corruption". www.nybooks.com. January 15, 2009.
“Photography came as a substitute. I was painfully shy and found talking to people difficult; a camera in hand gave me a function, a reason to be somewhere, a witness, but not an actor.”
“I suspect millions of people from my generation probably have comparable stories to tell: if not of sports simulations then of Dungeons & Dragons, or the geopolitical strategy of games like Diplomacy, a kind of chess superimposed onto actual history.”
“Dear little head, that lies in calm content Within the gracious hollow that God made In every human shoulder, where He meant Some tired head for comfort should be laid.”
“I love the outdoors, I love climbing mountains. But I also like to walk down the street in New York in the fall and go to a bar. So what I require of a jacket is different, but it still has that heritage.”

Source : Source: www.elle.com
“Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.”

Source : Hans Christian Andersen (2016). “Best Fairy Tales”, p.129, Pan Macmillan

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