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Start at once a bedside library and spend the last half hour of the day in communion with the saints of humanity.
I kept thinking how marvellous it would be if I could somehow tear my heart, which felt so heavy, out of my chest.
The government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it can't return even if it wants to.
And only now, when he was gray-haired, had he fallen in love properly, thoroughly, for the first time in his life.
Women writers should write a lot if they want to write. Take the English women, for example. What amazing workers.
The larger crimes are apt to be the simpler, for the bigger the crime, the more obvious, as a rule, is the motive.
[Sherlock Holmes:] The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession.
It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.
They enjoy thinking. They enjoy being creative. They enjoy having ideas. Most people do not enjoy thinking at all.
Only the human brain can deliberately change perceptions, change patterns, invent concepts and tolerate ambiguity.
It's always amazed me how little attention philosophers, psychologists, or anyone else actually has paid to humor.
Faith is not the opposite of reason. Faith rests squarely upon reason, but with the added component of revelation.
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are the most disliked and untrusted candidates for president in American history.
I used to practice clinical medicine. Now I practice political medicine, because it's the mother of all illnesses.
As Bernie Sanders said himself, it's a movement, not a man. And that movement continues to move into our campaign.
The issues we address basically: We call for an emergency jobs program to address the emergency of climate change.
Truth can never be an enemy to true religion, which appears always to the best advantage when it is most examined.
The Silurian Period-the grandest of all the Periods,-and, as yet, apparently the seed-time of all succeeding life.
The goal of science is to understand the fundamental reality and the goal of technology is to change that reality.
It is profoundly tragic that I am a slave, but it is profoundly joyous that I am God's slave, not that of a devil.
I don't think people should be running to get in the fund before it closes, ... lots of ways to get participation.
People like space. But they sometimes have been left out. People are much more open to that if you invite them in.
The child, in fact, once he feels sure of himself, will no longer seek the approval of authority after every step.
The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!
For women, eating just two handfuls of nuts a week may extend their lives as much as by jogging four hours a week.
We can never get a re-creation of community and heal our society without giving our citizens a sense of belonging.
The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others.
To be successful you have to be lucky, or a little mad, or very talented, or find yourself in a rapid growth field.
I'm a serious Christian. I take my faith seriously. I try to practice it every day of the week, not just on Sunday.
Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.
My support is particularly Bernie Sanders supporters but that's drawn many [Donald] Trump supporters to start with.
Haiti's economy cannot be built by and benefit just a privileged few. It must be built by and benefit all Haitians.
... it is highly unlikely that a structural derangement could produce pain equal in severity to acute muscle spasm.
It's just plain learning something that you didn't know. There is a real aesthetic experience in being dumbfounded.
I will confess that I have no more sense of what goes on in the mind of mankind than I have for the mind of an ant.
Only when the child is able to identify its own center with the center of the universe does education really begin.
Adults have not understood children or adolescents and they are, as a consequence, in continual conflict with them.
Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.
I am extremely intentional in making the environment around me playful and loving. I have great skill in that area.
How much obesity has to be created in a single decade for people to realize that diet has to be responsible for it?
A diet rich in fruits and vegetables plays a role in reducing the risk of all the major causes of illness and death
We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We'll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.
An absence of antecedents and of relatives is sometimes an aid rather than an impediment to social advancement . . .
There's a tendency to dismiss anything having to do with love and intimacy in medicine because it's hard to measure.
Healing with the clean, pure, beautiful agents of nature is surely the one method of all which appeals to most of us
Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain subjective, negative, ungrateful way.
I am a self-proclaimed "fitness addict," so I am one of those people who actually really, really enjoys working out.
I think it would be a disaster if Donald Trump is elected. It will also be a disaster if Hillary Clinton is elected.
The most fundamental tragedy of my life is that the ones who I see do not exist and the one who exists I do not see.