"In the face of adversity, hope often comes in the form of a friend who reaches out to us."

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Source : Christopher Reeve (2002). “Nothing is impossible: reflections on a new life”

Christopher Reeve

#Adversity Quotes #Faces Quotes #Form Quotes

“Sometimes I feel like a vampire”
“Male love circuits get an extra kick when stress levels are high. After an intense physical challenge, for instance, males will bond quickly and sexually with the first willing female they lay eyes on. Women, by contrast, will rebuff advances or expressions of affection and desire when under stress. The reason may be that the stress hormone cortisol blocks oxytocin's action in the female brain, abruptly shutting off a woman's desire for sex and physical touch.”
“All I can do is write about whatever grabs me.”
“I think if Keith Moon was here today and you asked him to recall most of his early life or most of his life, he wouldn't be able to recall it.”
“Real randomness requires an infinite amount of information.”
“It is however always important to remember that the ability to see things in their correct perspective may be, and often is, divorced from the ability to reason correctly and vice versa. That is why a man may be a very good theorist and yet talk absolute nonsense....”

Source : Joseph A. Schumpeter (2013). “Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy”, p.76, Routledge
“If you look at Gothic detailing right down to the bottom of a column or the capital of a column, it's a small version of the whole building; that's why, like dating the backbones of a dinosaur, a good historian can look at a detail of a Gothic building and tell you exactly what the rest of the building was, and infer the whole from the parts.”
“I've just always been a bit of a dork.”

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