"The terrain is everything; the germ is nothing,"

-- Claude Bernard

“It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.”
“You cannot look in a new direction by looking harder in the same direction.”
“My favorite track from the album Independent is Hold On. Everyone at some point fights battles or has struggles, and in moments of doubt or defeat, this is the song coming from a place of never giving up. It makes me think of the angel on the shoulder voicing understanding but guiding you in the right direction to take you out of that dark place.”
“An organism exists for no other reason than that it is able to... The wonderful, almost transcendent thing about life on earth is that in order to so exist, organisms must relate to each other and to the earth itself.”
“The actor who lets the dust accumulate on his Ibsen, his Shakspere [sic], and his Bible, but pores greedily over every little column of theatrical news, is a lost soul.”
“Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.”

Source : Duke Ellington (1973). “Music is my mistress”, Doubleday Books
“I have been poor and I wanted to document poverty; I had lost a child and I was obsessed with birth; I was interested in politics and I wanted to know how it affected our lives; I am a woman and I wanted to know about women.”

Source : Eve Arnold (1976). “The Unretouched Woman”, Random House (NY)
“I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.”

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