"He drew a deep breath. 'Well, I'm back,' he said."

-- J. R. R. Tolkien

#Said Quotes #Deep Breath Quotes

“Medicine deals with the states of health and disease in the human body. It is a truism of philosophy that a complete knowledge of a thing can only be obtained by elucidating its causes and antecedents, provided, of course, such causes exist. In medicine it is, therefore, necessary that causes of both health and disease should be determined.”

Source : Avicenna (1999). “The Canon of Medicine (al-Qānūn Fī'l-ṭibb)”, Abjad Book Designers & Builders
“Everyone thinks he knows what a lettuce looks like.Â But start to draw one and you realise the anomaly of having lived with lettuces all your life but never having seen one, never having seen the semi-translucent leaves curling in their own lettuce way, never having noticed what makes a lettuce a lettuce rather than a curly kale.”
“Except in very narrow cases, where there's breakthrough science that needs patent production, worrying about competitors is a waste of time. If you can't out iterate someone who is trying to copy you, you're toast anyway.”
“Any society that is silencing its women has no future.”
“I feel when you walk into somebody's apartment on Fifth Avenue or house in Malibu and you see a Basquiat, a Warhol, a Richard Prince, you say to yourself, '$700,000, $2.2 million, $350,000...' To me that is completely uninteresting. I'd rather go to a house where there's great art and I have no idea who the work is by.”
“In order to be a friend to anybody, you have to be a friend to yourself. If you're not a friend to yourself, there's no way you're gonna have any friends.”
“In baseball, I was always in control of everything until I let the ball go.”

Source : "Q&A with game creator Curt Schilling". Interview with Mike Snider, www.usatoday.com. February 7, 2012.
“I'm going to be your grandpa! / I have the biggest smile. / I've been waiting to meet you for such a long, long while.”

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