"Mutation is random; natural selection is the very opposite of random."

-- Richard Dawkins

#Opposites Quotes #Society Quotes #Mutation Quotes

“The single greatest impediment to error prevention in the medical industry is that we punish people for making mistakes,”
“I think, when men tell women to lose weight, it's a diversion from their own lack of size in certain areas.”
“No one in my family has ever died of love. What happened, happened, but nothing myth-inspiring.”
“I'm a color person, I've never been known to play it safe. Plus I like big bags. My eyeglasses are so big; they don't fit into smaller bags.”
“Loving God is like my being black. I just am. [No one says] 'You know what? I'm gonna be blacker today!' It's my culture. It's not something I put on or take off or show more. You just communicate that in the way you live your life.”
“A lot of my work involves instilling objects with the power of touch - a transference of soul, spirit, energy through actions.”
“One reason I can be more tolerant than most is that as a therapist I have the advantage of information about my patients that most people are not privy to. And I discover that we rarely if ever see the totality of another in ordinary social intercourse. When an individual appears mean and lazy, we are only seeing one part of the person, elicited by a particular set of circumstances on a particular day, and we do well to wait a while before concluding that what we see is the whole person.”
“Poetry is the language of intensity. Because we are going to die, an expression of intensity is justified.”

Source : C.D. Wright (2012). “Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil”, p.61, Copper Canyon Press

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