"We pass the word around; we ponder how the case is put by different people, we read the poetry; we meditate over the literature; we play the music; we change our minds; we reach an understanding. Society evolves this way, not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other."

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Source : Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

Lewis Thomas

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“With each spring comes new life, energy and green growth. In summer comes the sun, warm, kind and enduring. Fall brings its canvas of color in careful, gentle change. Winter brews into faithful strength, beauty in pure white. And then comes you. You are all that Nature offers, a blessing, a gift.. You are the fifth season.”

Source : Jason F. Wright (2007). “The Wednesday Letters: A Novel”
“A girl's career today doesn't have the same kind of life span, whereas it used to be a collaboration and a partnership and it continued. Peter Lindbergh still uses girls - like, look at Amber Valetta - so there are some photographers that have relationships long-term with models. I also think that the industry can't support the amount of models that exist right now and therefore the relationships between photographers and models and even the clients is short lived.”
“The only reason I don't kill him," he remember the woman saying, her voice sounding like the scrape of iron against iron, a corrosion of vocal cords, "is because he's not important enough.”
“That which is called liberality is frequently nothing more than the vanity of giving.”
“To understand Mozart's contradictory qualities would indeed be to understand genius.”
“Better to be happy with the cod fish in your plate now, than to linger for the taste of a tuna that is still swimming in the sea.”
“Primates need good nutrition, to begin with. Not only fruits and plants, but insects as well.”
“Your real life is in the here and now. Once you figure out what kinds of experiences cause you to feel certain ways, you can change either the experiences, or when that's not possible, change your responses to them.”

Source : Deborah S. Romaine, G. Alan Marlatt, Ph.D. (2008). “The Complete Idiot's Guide to Changing Old Habits for Good”, p.143, Penguin

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