"The mind likes a strange idea as little as the body likes a strange protein and resists it with similar energy. It would not perhaps be too fanciful to say that a new idea is the most quickly acting antigen known to science."

-- Wilfred Trotter

#Science Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Mind Quotes

“Both biological and cultural diversity are now severely threatened and working for their preservation is a critical task.”
“How much better my life has been for knowing him. For loving him, even if it's only in the limited way that I can manage. But I never get the chance.”
“Do what is right because it is right; and leave it alone.”

Source : "Fictional character: Army Lt. General Tadamichi Kuribayashi". "Letters from Iwo Jima", 2006.
“If you want to do something that requires willpowerâ€”like going for a run after workâ€”you have to conserve your willpower muscle during the day,”
“Repentance is belief in action.”
“Most of us were taught that God would love us if and when we change. In fact, God loves you so that you can change. What empowers change, what makes you desirous of change is the experience of love. It is that inherent experience of love that becomes the engine of change.”
“I wrote for a weekly magazine and then edited a literary magazine, but I did not really feel comfortable with the profession of journalism itself”
“The human condition can be summed up in a drop of blood. Show me a teaspoon of blood and I will reveal to thee the ineffable nature of the cosmos, naked and squirming. Squirming. Funny how the truth always seems to do that when you shine a light on it.”

Source : Laird Barron (2007). “The Imago Sequence”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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