"The placebo effect is one of the most fascinating things in the whole of medicine. It's not just about taking a pill, and your performance and your pain getting better. It's about our beliefs and expectations. It's about the cultural meaning of a treatment."

-- Ben Goldacre

#Pain Quotes #Motivation Quotes #Inspiration Quotes

“Excuses sound best to the person that's making 'em up!”
“Your uniqueness is your strength. Remember that. Don't mold yourself to others or to what others think. You're an individual. You're special.”
“The roughest thing I ever said to an umpire was, 'Are you sure?'”
“We'd all [with Mike Mitchell] been together at Dreamworks for over ten years, so we all had the same goals.”
“Americans (I, I'm afraid, among them) go around carelessly assuming they're tolerant the way they go around carelessly saying, 'You ought to be in pictures.' But in the clinches, they turn out to be tolerant about as often as they turn out to be Clark Gable.”

Source : Margaret Halsey (1944). “Some of My Best Friends are Soldiers: A Kind of Novel”, New York : Simon and Schuster
“If you take care of yourself and walk with integrity, you may be confident that God will deal with those who sin against you. Above all, don't give birth to sin yourself, rather, pray for those who persecute you. God will one day turn your persecution into praise.”
“Journeys end in lovers' meeting.' ... But the real journey - the journey of adventure itself - is frequently another matter: often gray, often loverless, often demanding from the secret soul of the adventurer spirit and inspiration, lest the blood turn cold in sick dismay, and the brain cloud under its weight of nostalgia.”

Source : Katherine Cecil Thurston (2008). “Max (EasyRead Comfort Edition)”, p.22, ReadHowYouWant.com
“The inclination to believe in the fantastic may strike some as a failure in logic, or gullibility, but itâ€™s really a gift. A world that might have Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster is clearly superior to one that definitely does not.”

Source : Caldecott Medal acceptance speech for The Polar Express, polarexpress.com. 1986.

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