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“Oh let us not be condemned for what we are. It is enough to account for what we do.”
Source : 1983 'Children in Exile'.
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“I hold to the idea that civility, understood as the willingness to engage in public discourse, is the first virtue of citizens.”
Source : "The World We Want: Virtue, Vice, and the Good Citizen". Book by Mark Kingwell, 2000.
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“If the hypothesis of evolution is true, living matter must have arisen from non-living matter; for by the hypothesis the condition of the globe was at one time such, that living matter could not have existed in it, life being entirely incompatible with the gaseous state.”
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“I love highlighting. A good highlighter works on everyone.”
Source : Source: www.marieclaire.com
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“Lithium tweaks many mood-altering chemicals in the brain, and its effects are complicated. Most interesting, lithium seems to reset the body’s circadian rhythm, its inner clock. In normal people, ambient conditions, especially the sun, dictate their humors and determine when they are tuckered out for the day. They’re on a twenty-four-hour cycle. Bipolar people run on cycles independent of the sun. And run and run.”
Source : Sam Kean (2011). “The Disappearing Spoon...and other true tales from the Periodic Table”, p.252, Random House
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“Remember, when we're conscious of something, that state is quite often generated by unconscious processes that happen right before it.”
Source : Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
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“If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.”
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“The power to lead is the power to mislead, and the power to mislead is the power to destroy.”
