"The very process of living is a continual interplay between the individual and his environment, often taking the form of a struggle resulting in injury or disease."

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Source : René Jules Dubos (1987). “Mirage of Health: Utopias, Progress, and Biological Change”, p.2, Rutgers University Press

Rene Dubos

#Life Quotes #Struggle Quotes #Disease Quotes

“A commonsense interpretation of the facts suggests that a superintellect has monkeyed with physics, as well as with chemistry and biology, and that there are no blind forces worth speaking about in nature. The numbers one calculates from the facts seem to me so overwhelming as to put this conclusion almost beyond question.”
“Hope drives us to invent new fixes for old messes, which in turn create ever more dangerous messes. Hope elects the politician with the biggest empty promise; and as any stockbroker or lottery seller knows, most of us will take a slim hope over prudent and predictable frugality. Hope, like greed, fuels the engine of capitalism.”
“Oh, you wanna do a little bit of roleplay? Could you just play dead?”
“It is better to have a relationship with someone who cheats on you than with someone who does not flush the toilet.”

Source : Interview with Laura Yorke in "Reader's Digest" Magazine, July 2006.
“For the last thirty years in my career I never know what I'm doing next.”
“We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.”
“Everything is made out of Magic, leaves and trees, flowers and birds, badgers and foxes and squirrels and people. So it must be all around us. In this garden-in all the places.”
“My mother was always in those films where it's the end of the world and a meteor's about to hit London; there's only six people left, and one of them's in purple underwear. That was always my mother, running from this meteor in purple underwear and spraining her ankle.”

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