"Chemistry: that most excellent child of intellect and art."

-- Cyril Norman Hinshelwood

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“As a man has no right to kill one of his children if it is diseased or insane, so a man who has made the gradual and conscious expression of his personality in literature the aim of his life, has no right to suppress himself any carefully considered work which seemed good enough when it was written. Suppression, if it is deserved, will come rapidly enough from the same causes that suppress the unworthy members of a man's family.”

Source : Draft of a preface in "Notebook 16". "The Collected Works of J.M. Synge", Volume 1. Introduction, 1962.
“Network heads don't seemed to be turned off by the men who get older.”
“One doesn't lose a self, like a pair of gloves or a pine. We learn and change, or we harden into stone.”
“Sometimes I get, "Have you ever thought about doing real music?" I like to think the music I do is real, it just happens to be funny.”
“The man, or the boy, in his development is psychologically deterred from incorporating serving characteristics by an easily observable fact: there are already people around who are clearly meant to serve and they are girls and women. To perform the activities these people are doing is to risk being, and being thought of, and thinking of oneself, as a woman. This has been made a terrifying prospect and has been made to constitute a major threat to masculine identity.”

Source : Jean Baker Miller (2012). “Toward a New Psychology of Women”, p.71, Beacon Press
“I married two weeks after my 18th birthday, far too young, and by the time I was 23 I was a single mother of three small children, Sean, Daniel and Victoria, living in a prefab house.”
“But we cannot rely on foreign help indefinitely.”
“In every friendship hearts grow and entwine themselves together, so that the two hearts seem to make only one heart with only a common thought. That is why separation is so painful; it is not so much two hearts separating, but one being torn asunder.”

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