"Today we have big, crude instruments guided by intelligent surgeons, and we have little, stupid molecules of drugs that get dumped into the body, diffuse around and interfere with things as best they can. At present, medicine is unable to heal anything."

-- K. Eric Drexler

#Stupid Quotes #Intelligent Quotes #Medicine Quotes

“I'm just imagining some of [Mark Lilla] fellow liberals being rather angry at you saying such a thing [that Democrats and liberals, more generally, lost a lot of political capital ].”
“A cup concealed in the dress is rarely honestly carried.”
“There's something about Celtic mythology which is deep in the soul, and I just think that somehow she has tapped right into it.”
“Good music can act as a guide to good living.”
“Weakness or strength: you exist, that is strength. You don't know where you are going or why you are going, go in everywhere, answer everyone. No one will kill you, any more than if you were a corpse.”
“Why should I ? I don't need to run down my opponent through filthy language in order to win. The voters don't expect this from their representatives.”
“Certainly the worker has nothing to lose by a change from government and capitalism to a condition of no government, of anarchy.”

Source : Alexander Berkman (1929). “What is Communist Anarchism?”, New York : Dover Publications
“Face of the spring moon- about twelve years old, I'd say.”

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