#icu

Will is nothing more than a particular case of the general doctrine of association of ideas, and therefore a perfectly mechanical thing. ↗

— Joseph Priestley

#case #doctrine #general #ideas #mechanical

Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#after #basis #chose #deliberations #endless

Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture. ↗

— Quintilian

#barren #consequently #derive #devoid #more

The longer I think about a food industry organized around an animal that cannot reproduce itself without technical assistance, the more I mistrust it. Poultry, a significant part of the modern diet, is emblematic of the whole dirty deal. Having no self-sustaining bloodlines to back up the industry is like having no gold standard to underpin paper currency. Maintaining a natural breeding poultry flock is a rebellion, at the most basic level, against the wholly artificial nature of how foods are produced. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#food #diet

The aging of the U.S. population is a theme that we believe strongly in and the health care sector is really right in the bulls eye of this particular theme. ↗

— John Zimmerman

#believe #bulls #care #eye #health

In mainstream romantic comedies, I'm usually tearing my hair out. It's just a devastatingly difficult genre for me. ↗

— Carter Burwell

#difficult #genre #hair #i #just

Typically, in the cities there can be resistance to the gospel or just to Americans, or anybody that's Western. When you get back into the villages, the people are very welcoming. Then when you get into Muslim areas, it definitely gets a little more difficult. ↗

— Michael Scott

#areas #back #cities #definitely #difficult

I think rock 'n' roll would become exponentially, considerably more difficult to perform past about 65. ↗

— Adam Clayton

#become #considerably #difficult #exponentially #i

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough. ↗

— Don Marquis

#anyone #enough #get #interesting #live

A wife is a friend first, a lover second, and third and probably most important, a maid. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#funny #humor #love #ridiculous #wife