#log

Some people are born with a fire inside them. The will to succeed. It isn’t a learned behavior. It’s just some unknown biological factor that makes them try harder. ↗

— J.A. Konrath

#quotable #biology

Future historians, I hope, will consider the American fast food industry a relic of the twentieth century--a set of attitudes, systems, and beliefs that emerged from postwar southern California, that embodied its limitless faith in technology, that quickly spread across the globe, flourished briefly, and then receded, once its true costs became clear and its thinking became obsolete. ↗

— Eric Schlosser

#technology-addiction #attitude

Nothing says you're sorry like a dead bunny. ↗

— Patricia Briggs

#apology #mercy #sorry #mercy

The vampire was real. It was only that his true story had never been told. ↗

— Richard Matheson

#mythology

Obviously, there must be some connection between the subordination of actual individuals and the grotesque exaltation of symbolic ones like Kim Il Sung. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#dictatorship #kim-il-sung #north-korea #psychology #subordination

You see, proteins, as I probably needn't tell you, are immensely complicated groupings of amino acids and certain other specialized compounds, arranged in intricate three-dimensional patterns that are as unstable as sunbeams on a cloudy day. It is this instability that is life, since it is forever changing its position in an effort to maintain its identity--in the manner of a long rod balanced on an acrobat's nose. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#ontology #change

I know the theological answers, but do my blood and my pulse? ↗

— Ann Voskamp

#blood #body #pulse #theology #theology

Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#art form #black #form #literature #rigorous

It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable. ↗

— Graham Greene

#sociology

False fears are a plague, a modern plague! ↗

— Michael Crichton

#sociology