"Thee may tell Aunt Janet from me that she might as well try to stop the stars in their courses as to try to stop a love affair."

-- Hannah Whitall Smith

#Stars Quotes #Aunt Quotes #Trying Quotes

“I find inspiration in everything from a piece of art to the hem of a dress.”
“If heaven send no supplies, The fairest blossom of the garden dies.”

Source : Nicholas Breton, George Wither, William Browne (1906). “Nicholas Breton: Pastoral Poems; George Wither: Selected Poetry; William Browne (of Tavistock): Pastoral Poetry”
“Scientists surely have a special responsibility. It is their ideas that form the basis of new technology. They should not be indifferent to the fruits of their ideas. They should forgo experiments that are risky or unethical.”

Source : "Dark materials" by Martin Rees, www.theguardian.com. June 09, 2006.
“Like everyone else, I want to go on dancing forever, but I know the day is going to come when I will have to be doing something else.”
“The IEA forecasts that production from oilfields, which have started production up to 2011, will nearly drop two-thirds by 2035.”
“The real reason French women don't get fat is not genetic, but cultural, and if the French subjected themselves to the American extremes of eating and dieting, the obesity problem in France would be much worse than what has struck America.”
“Consider prejudice. Once a person begins to accept a stereotype of a particular group, that "thought" becomes an active agent, "participating" in shaping how he or she interacts with another person who falls in that stereotyped class. In turn, the tone of their interaction influences the other person's behaviour. The prejudiced person can't see how his prejudice shapes what he "sees" and how he acts. In some sense, if he did, he would no longer be prejudiced. To operate, the "thought" of prejudice must remain hidden to its holder”
“Contradictory as it seems, malnutrition is a key contributor to obesity.”

Source : "National Security Depends on the Nation’s Food Security" by Madeleine M. Kunin, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 13, 2013.

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