"When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them as if their reason had left them. When it has left a place where we have always found it, it is like shipwreck; we drop from security into something malevolent and bottomless."

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Source : My Mortal Enemy pt. 1, ch. 6 (1926)

Willa Cather

#Kindness Quotes #People Quotes #Moments Quotes

“What the neurology tells us is that the self consists of many components, and the notion of one unitary self may well be an illusion.”

Source : "The Tell-Tale Brain". Book by Vilayanur S. Ramachandran, 2010.
“names are a way to keep people in your mind”
“Universities are meant to pass the torch of civilization.”
“To me it is unthinkable that a real atheist could be a scientist.”
“No disease that can be treated by diet should be treated with any other means.”
“We do not choose to be born. We do not choose our parents, or the country of our birth. We do not, most of us, choose to die; nor do we choose the time and conditions of our death. But within this realm of choicelessnness, we do choose how we live.”
“I devote my life to the rebirth of the Jewish State, with a Jewish majority, on both sides of the Jordan.”
“Id rather be with Dracula than the Wolfman.”

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