"He comes to this other world and he has to reinvent himself. Again, it felt natural, even though I'd been working really hard trying to come up with something."

-- Michael Chabon

#Other Worlds Quotes #Trying Quotes #Natural Quotes

“Indifference must be a crime in us, to be ranked but one degree below treachery; for deserting the commonwealth is next to betraying it.”
“I'm a trained lawyer, after all, so I don't have to admit to anything.”
“Ionizing radiation may well be the most important single cause of cancer, birth defects and genetic disorders... The stakes for human health are very, very high in radiation matters. It is essential that people take no chance that conflict-of-interest is producing radiation databases which cannot be trusted.”

Source : John Gofman's Right Livelihood Award Acceptance Speech, www.rightlivelihoodaward.org. December 31, 1992.
“In our spring-time every day has its hidden growths in the mind, as it has in the earth when the little folded blades are getting ready to pierce the ground.”
“I do not believe indeed, I deem it a comic blunder to believe that the exercise of reason is sufficient to explain our condition and where necessary to remedy it, but I do believe that the exercise of reason is at all times necessary...”
“Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults.”

Source : "Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers". Book by Diogenes Laërtius,
“And I am still alive-what though, my damnation is eternal. A man who deliberately mutilates himself is truly damned, is he not? I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am.”
“Acting is not just doing! It is who you are being and what you are experiencing that causes you to do - to need to act. Then doing turns arounds and changes your being. But doing without being is lifeless.”

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