"One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience."

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Source : 1890 Diary entry, 27 Sep.

Alice James

#Women Quotes #Memorable Quotes #Doctors Quotes

“When you first start out don't set yourself a lofty goal of sitting down to meditate for twenty minutes. Aim instead for ten minutes or even five minutes - utilizing those few moments when you find yourself willing or even desiring just to take a break from the daily grind to observe your mind rather than drifting off into daydreams.”
“Everything we say about other people is really about ourselves.”
“So China will be having to make some choices as to whose side it wants to be on. Hopefully, this will be the beginning of a major improvement in our relationship with them, if they choose correctly”
“It's easy to tell who the folks are that don't believe in evolution. They're the ones who have refused to participate in it.”
“Some of us learned in a school of philosophy which taught that all was for the common good and nothing for oneself and have never, in any case, regarded the pursuit of happiness as anything other than an aberration of the human spirit.”

Source : John Grierson, Ian Lockerbie, John Grierson Archive (1990). “Eyes of democracy”, Grierson Archive
“I was singing a lot of waltzes. And I was with Jerry Kennedy, my producer, and he was playing me some songs, and he said, hey, I want to play you this song that I'm going to get Jackie Ward to record.”
“For one thing, she pronounced flowers 'flars' and I couldn't let it slide.”
“Do not set out to make Mexican art, or American, Chinese, or Russian art. Think in terms of universality.”

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