"...It would be possible to make much more progress than has been made if the NCI knew its job better, knew how to make discoveries...The NCI really does not know how to make discoveries....So long as the NCI is not willing to follow up ideas that seem good to people who have had experience making discoveries, the work of the NCI is going to be pedestrian."

-- Linus Pauling

#Jobs Quotes #Dark Quotes #Discovery Quotes

“Our reluctance to honestly examine the experience of aging and dying has increased the harm we inflict on people and denied them the basic comforts they most need.”

Source : Atul Gawande (2014). “Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End”, p.13, Profile Books
“I've never had my heart broken.”
“People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don't suffer anymore.”
“Friendship requires a steady, constant, and unchangeable character, a person that is uniform in his intimacy.”
“When the leaves turn brown, I'll be wearing the batting crown”
“To trust other people to keep you safe, it's very difficult ... But when Tom Cruise is there, you just expect that he'll save you. I was like, "Tom. You're Tom Cruise. It's your job to save the day. And the day is me. You need to save it. If I panic, I expect you to be down there."”

Source : Source: www.mtv.com
“Now for good or ill, California is the place where trends tend to be set in Western civilization - if civilization indeed it is. California, for several generations now, has been the newest, biggest, most experimental place in the newest, biggest, most experimental part of liberal Western capitalism - which is itself a new experiment for mankind.”
“In the desert prepare the way for the LORD; make straight in the wilderness a highway for our God. Every valley shall be raised up, every mountain and hill made low; the rough ground shall become level, the rugged places a plain. And the glory of the LORD will be revealed, and all mankind together will see it. For the mouth of the LORD has spoken.”

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