"Thought, like any parasite, cannot exist without a compliant host."

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Source : "Genesis". Book by Bernard Beckett, 2006.

Bernard Beckett

#Host Quotes #Parasites Quotes

“There will be a few times in your life when all your instincts will tell you to do something, something that defies logic, upsets your plans, and may seem crazy to others. When that happens, you do it. Listen to your instincts and ignore everything else. Ignore logic, ignore the odds, ignore the complications, and just go for it.”

Source : Judith McNaught (1997). “Remember When”, p.2, Simon and Schuster
“God has a most wicked sense of humor.”
“The national research effort, upon which so much depends, will remain healthy only so long as there is sound core of disinterested search for new knowledge and an adequate number of men and women trained for carrying on such research and for teaching young scientists.”

Source : "Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists" Vol. 9, No. 2, published by by Educational Foundation for Nuclear Science, Inc., (p. 38), March 1953.
“All I'm thinking about today is cleaning my bathroom.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“With the arrival of electric technology, man has extended, or set outside himself, a live model of the central nervous system itself. To the degree that this is so, it is a development that suggests a desperate suicidal autoamputation, as if the central nervous system could no longer depend on the physical organs to be protective buffers against the slings and arrows of outrageous mechanism.”
“Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.”

Source : Memorandum to Peter van Emde Boas, 29 Mar. 1977
“If there were no valleys of sadness and death, we could never really appreciate the sunshine of happiness on the mountain top.”

Source : Roy Rogers, Dale Evans Rogers, Carlton Stowers (1979). “Happy trails: the story of Roy Rogers and Dale Evans”, Thomas Nelson Publishers
“Coming out involves varying degrees of difficulty that are affected by class, race, religion, and geography.”

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