"A disease is never a mere loss or excess. There is always a reaction on the part of the organism or individual to restore, replace or compensate for and to preserve its identity, however strange the means may be."

-- Oliver Sacks

#Mean Quotes #Loss Quotes #Identity Quotes

“Americans long to be united. After 9/11, we all just wanted to be one nation. Not a single American on September the 12, 2001, cared who won the next presidential election.”
“Joy is a flame which association alone can keep alive, and which goes out unless communicated.”
“English should be our official language. Reading and speaking English are requirements to become a citizen.”
“The more the development of late capitalism renders obsolete or at least suspect the real possibilities of self, self-fulfillment and actualization, the more they are emphasized as if they could spring to life through an act of will alone.”
“If you don't understand something, break it apart; reduce it to its components. Since they are simpler than the whole,you have a much better chance of understanding them; and when you have succeeded in doing that, put the whole thing back together again.”

Source : Hans Christian Von Baeyer (2004). “Information: The New Language of Science”, p.54, Harvard University Press
“Linux has never been about quality. There are so many parts of the system that are just these cheap little hacks, and it happens to run.”
“So I think that in the beginning of your career you're just looking to work. Luckily for me, my first movie was 'Rabbit Hole' and I got to work with incredible people, a Pulitzer prize winning writer, John Cameron Mitchell, and all the actors involved. So it's tough, man, because you want to have credibility.”
“I know I'm not a saint, but I'm not the guy I'm made out to be by others.”

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