"Disease is nothing else but an attempt on the part of the body to rid itself of morbific matter."

-- Thomas Sydenham

#Disease Quotes #Matter Quotes #Body Quotes

“When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control.”

Source : "Our Culture, What’s Left Of It". Interview with Jamie Glazov, archive.frontpagemag.com. August 31, 2005.
“You have to think back to the '90s. The computer was this terrible-looking thing that was trying to compete with the television. And it was this idea of email and chat rooms and this kind of stuff that first people - got people there.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org
“...the era of cheap oil and natural gas is coming to a crashing end, with global oil production projected to peak in 2010 and North American natural gas extraction rates already in decline. These events will have enormous implications for America's petroleum-dependent food system”

Source : Richard Heinberg (2010). “Peak Everything: Waking Up to the Century of Declines”, p.48, New Society Publishers
“The way I make art, the way a lot of people make art, is as an extension of language and communication, where references are incredibly important.”

Source : Interview by Iggy Pop, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 27, 2010.
“Every fool becomes a philosopher after ten days of rain, so I spare you the inside view of my heart.”
“It isn't given to us to see ends. We can only attend to the beginnings and make them right.”

Source : Eleanor H. Porter (2012). “The Road to Understanding”, p.192, The Floating Press
“Actors in general are pretty good bullshit artists; we're good at just chewing the fat, interacting with people. So we're good ambassadors for movies.”
“The illusion that we understand the past fosters overconfidence in our ability to predict the future.”

Source : Daniel Kahneman (2011). “Thinking, Fast and Slow”, p.248, Macmillan

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