"I began the study of medicine, impelled by a desire for knowledge of facts and of man. The resolution to do disciplined work tied me to both laboratory and clinic for a long time to come."

-- Karl Jaspers

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“Then in October, Indian Summer, the air turned so soft, the sunlight so fragile, and each day's loveliness so poignantly doomed that even self-ignorance and restlessness felt like profound states of being, and he just wandered the empty beaches and misty headlands in a state of serene confusion and awe.”

Source : David James Duncan (2010). “The Brothers K”, p.401, Dial Press
“Hither and thither spins The wind-borne mirroring soul, A thousand glimpses wins, And never sees a whole.”
“We stink more of the world than we stink of sack cloth and ashes. A lot of contemporary churches today would feel more at home in a movie house rather than in a house of prayer, more afraid of holy living than of sinning, know more about money than magnifying Christ in our bodies. It is so compromised that holiness and living a sin-free life is heresy to the modern church. The modern church is, quite simply, just the world with a Christian T-shirt on!”
“I don't really want to do the Hollywood thing, I think you ought to try to say something with your movies.”
“A scene has to have a rhythm of its own, a structure of its own.”

Source : "Interview in Rome". Encountering Directors, (pp. 15-32), 1972.
“Garrett Hardin. Parenthood: Right or Privilege? Science Magazine.”
“In many cases bands have a lot to overcome, business being what it is.”

Source : Source: time.com
“The man who denounces life merely defines himself as the man who is unequal to it.”

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