"These corporations run our culture, and they riddle it with bullshit."

-- Ben Goldacre

#Running Quotes #Bullshit Quotes #Culture Quotes

“I actually was rebelling as all young adults tend to do at or around the age of 19, to experiment with their lives and have fun.”
“In diabetes the thirst is greater for the fluid dries the body ... For the thirst there is need of a powerful remedy, for in kind it is the greatest of all sufferings, and when a fluid is drunk, it stimulates the discharge of urine.”

Source : Therapeutics of chronic diseases II, Ch. II, 485-6
“...the taste of the finely-worded truth rolled upon the tongue as its thought is revolved in the mind.”
“Always when I directed the play, I was always trying to cast people not who were necessarily like the characters, but people who I felt had the essential component that the character had, some kind of soul for it.”

Source : "Closer - Patrick Marber Q&A" compiled by Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.
“Awareness of universals is called conceiving, and a universal of which we are aware is called a concept.”
“The international equity question arises from the costs of climate change itself and mitigation varying greatly across countries. It is affected by the historical responsibility for current greenhouse gas emissions, which countries which were not responsible for what's in the atmosphere now think are very important. Currently rich countries don't think those issues are very important.”
“Fortunately, the mind is restless; when it uncovers a layer of its own deception, gives up an illusion, exposes a lie, it does not stand idle for long before the collapse of its earlier assumptions.”

Source : Kim Chernin (1982). “The obsession: reflections on the tyranny of slenderness”, HarperCollins Publishers
“Always be ready to release your mind.”

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