With the modern diseases (once TB, now cancer) the romantic idea that the disease expresses the character is invariably extended to assert that the character causes the disease -- because it has not expressed itself. Passion moves inward, striking and blighting the deepest cellular recesses.

The line between the public life and the private life has been erased, due to the rapid decline of manners and courtesy. There is a certain crudeness and crassness that has suddenly become accepted behavior, even desirable.

Fannie Flagg

No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state.

Felix Adler

The doctors take the bodily evidence as the disease. . . . disease is itself an impudent opinion. He throws off the feelings of the sick and imparts to them his own which are perfect health, and his explanation destroys their feelings or disease. . . . He is like a captain who knows his business and feels confident in a storm, and his confidence sustains the crew and ship when both would be lost if the captain should give way to his fears.

Phineas Parkhurst Quimby

The best career advice I've gotten is to stay focused, keep moving forward.

Tyga

Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.

John Ruskin

A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul.

Minna Antrim

It just so happens that the green religion is now taking over from the Christian religion. I don't think people have noticed that, but it's got all the sort of terms that religions use... The greens use guilt. That just shows how religious greens are. You can't win people round by saying they are guilty for putting (carbon dioxide) in the air.

James Lovelock

I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong

Benjamin Franklin

We are pre-disposed for fantasy, there is a natural impulse for human beings to want to get off their heads or out of their heads in something in a substance or a drink or an idea or a religion which will comfort them and make life exciting.

Tom Baker

And I just like the guy. He's a good joe. Obviously loves his wife, calls her his better half, and polls show America agrees.

Stephen Colbert

I laugh because I must not cry. That is all. That is all.

Abraham Lincoln

The best angle from which to approach a problem is the Try-angle.

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