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“Homeopathy may be defined as a specious mode of doing nothing. While it waits on the natural progress of disease and the restorative tendence of nature on the one hand, or the injurious advance of disease on the other, it supplies the craving for activity, on the part of the patient and his friends, by the formal and regular administration of nominal medicine. Although homeopathy will, at some future time, be classed with historical delusions.”
Source : Jacob Bigelow (1867). “Modern Inquiries, Classical, Professional, and Miscellaneous”, p.231
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“It is changing the face of terrorism. It is basically bringing it to the United States, to our great citizens. We know the terrorists are barbaric and murderers that attack innocent civilians, as they did in this case.”
Source : "America's New War: Responding to Terrorism". "Larry King Live", www.cnn.com. October 1, 2001.
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“A writer is always working.”
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“Harvey wasn't interested in the clothes, it was the masks that mesmerized him. They were like snowflakes: no two alike. Some were made of wood and of plastic; some of straw and cloth and papier-mâché. Some were as bright as parrots, others as pale as parchment. Some were so grotesque he was certain they'd been carved by crazy people; others so perfect they looked like the death masks of angels. There were masks of clowns and foxes, masks like skulls decorated with real teeth, and one with carved flames instead of hair.”
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“The most beautiful thing about music is that it transcends most anything.”
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“Six weeks after his death my father appeared to me in a dream... It was an unforgettable experience, and it forced me for the first time to think about life after death.”
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“I can talk about feelings, but I can't talk about why this chord on top of this chord sounds cool to me. It just makes me feel a certain way, and I like it.”
Source : "Deerhoof". Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. January 29, 2007.
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“Beyond is all abyss, eternity, whose end no eye can reach.”