"The first entirely vital action, so termed because it is not effected outside the influence of life, consists in the creation of the glycogenic material in the living hepatic tissue. The second entirely chemical action, which can be effected outside the influence of life, consists in the transformation of the glycogenic material into sugar by means of a ferment."

-- Claude Bernard

#Mean Quotes #Tissues Quotes #Sugar Quotes

“Days I kept busy with fractured angels' client masquerades.”

Source : Olga Broumas (1999). “Rave: poems, 1975-1999”, Copper Canyon Pr
“I like being married, but it was never something I felt I had to do.”
“In the twentieth century, men -- all of us -- find themselves compelled to commit or condone evil for the sake of preventing an evil believed to be greater. And the tragedy is that we do not know whether the evil we condone will not in the end be greater than the evil we seek to avert-- or be identified with.”
“Why was I born with such contemporaries?”
“Having been an actress before becoming a producer has helped, because I realize the needs”
“women who once aspired to the image of superwoman now worry about becoming superdrudge. Those who wanted to have it all now ask whether they have to do it all.”

Source : Ellen Goodman (1990). “Making Sense”, Penguin Group USA
“There are literally as many ideas as there are organisms.”
“If things are going slow, I'm itchy.”

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