"I like to think that when Medawar and his colleagues showed that immunological tolerance could be produced experimentally the new immunology was born. This is a science which to me has far greater potentialities both for practical use in medicine and for the better understanding of living process than the classical immunochemistry which it is incorporating and superseding."

-- Frank Macfarlane Burnet

#Thinking Quotes #Medicine Quotes #Understanding Quotes

“Then it dawned on me that no one else was going to believe in me until I believed in myself.”

Source : David J Schwartz (2016). “The Magic of Thinking Big”, p.11, Random House
“He looked at a world of incredible loveliness. Old distaff Celt's blood in some back chamber of his brain moved him to discourse with the birches, with the oaks. A cool green fire kept breaking in the woods and he could hear the footsteps of the dead. Everything had fallen from him. He scarce could tell where his being ended or the world began nor did he care. He lay on his back in the gravel, the earth's core sucking his bones, a moment's giddy vertigo with this illusion of falling outward through blue and windy space, over the offside of the planet, hurtling through the high thin cirrus.”
“Katie commented that Americans had lost the ability to enjoy themselves. "We watch television," Dave said.”
“Perseverance is what I tell my students. It's important that you keep your dream alive, because you're going to encounter a lot of obstacles, and no one is going to dream big for you. You have to have the fortitude and the resilience to stick with your own dreams. That can be hard.”

Source : Source: aalbc.com
“I'd heard of really bad things Klan folks did to Negroes. Mean, hateful, deadly things. I didn't know they were hateful toward white folks too.”

Source : Clare Vanderpool (2010). “Moon Over Manifest”, p.85, Delacorte Books for Young Readers
“I love Christmas. I really do love Christmas. I love being with my family and I love snow. I love the music and the lights and all of it.”
“A nation of intellectuals, a nation of thugs/Jesus is hate, a nation of Satan is love!”
“I don't like concrete jungles.”

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