#ene

We live in a dancing matrix of viruses; they dart, rather like bees, from organism to organism, from plant to insect to mammal to me and back again, and into the sea, tugging along pieces of this genome, strings of genes from that, transplanting grafts of DNA, passing around heredity as though at a great party. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#along #around #back #bees #dancing

We tend to think of our selves as the only wholly unique creations in nature, but it is not so. Uniqueness is so commonplace a property of living things that there is really nothing at all unique about it. A phenomenon can't be unique and universal at the same time. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#commonplace #creations #living #nature #nothing

When I look back at those pictures of my mother performing - and listen to her recordings - it makes me sad to think that all of that joy she found in her work came to an end. I wish she hadn't had to make that sacrifice, even if it was for the benefit of my father and siblings and me. ↗

— Marlo Thomas

#benefit #came #end #even #father

Medicare debates in Congress should result in better Medicare benefits for all our nation's seniors. We're not asking for special treatment for rural America, just a fair deal. ↗

— Bennie Thompson

#asking #benefits #better #congress #deal

Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy. ↗

— Dorothy Thompson

#born #distribute #does #energy #equally

There are twin Gates of Sleep. One, they say, is called the Gate of Horn and it offers easy passage to all true shades. The other glistens with ivory, radiant, flawless, but through it the dead send false dreams up toward the sky. And here Anchises, his vision told in full, escorts his son and Sibyl both and shows them out now through the Ivory Gate. ↗

— Virgil

#epic #roman #dreams

It is always self-defeating to pretend to a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history. ↗

— Renata Adler

#erases #experience #generation #history #own

The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap. ↗

— Spiro T. Agnew

#contemporary #gap #generation #generation gap #ignored

But if our hopes are betrayed, if we are forced to resist the invasion of our soil, and to defend our threatened homes, this duty, however hard it may be, will find us armed and resolved upon the greatest sacrifices. ↗

— King Albert II

#betrayed #defend #duty #find #forced

The first Victoria's Secret model I ever met was Adriana Lima, and she was so nice to me. She was very generous and very nurturing. She made sure people talked to me! ↗

— Lily Aldridge

#first #generous #i #made #me