#pill

Doctoring her seemed to her as absurd as putting together the pieces of a broken vase. Her heart was broken. Why would they try to cure her with pills and powders? ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#broken-heart #heart #heartache #heartbreak #pills

A traditional doctor gets paid to push pills, vaccinate, radiate, and basically exterminate people. No different than a contract killer—except the hit man is more honest, as he doesn’t claim to be helping humanity. Holistic medicine is the only way to go. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#exterminate #holistic #holistic-health #honest #humanity

I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets. That kind of spilled out into translation as a way to earn money, pay for food and put bread on the table. ↗

— Paul Auster

#bread #contemporary #earn #food #french

Yes, for a long time but I admired her and respected everything that I could sort of see in her from a distance, the pillars of her life, the loyalties, the relationships. It all got my interest and also the looks. ↗

— Andre Agassi

#also #could #distance #everything #got

The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly. ↗

— Richard Bach

#butterfly #calls #caterpillar #depth #end

When I lay my head on the pillow at night I can say I was a decent person today. That's when I feel beautiful. ↗

— Drew Barrymore

#decent #feel #head #i #i can

I need a Caution: Slippery When Wet sign, because I just spilled my ego all over the floor.
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— Jarod Kintz

#ego #floor #funny #humor #need

Britain, however, has ended up specialising in the ones you don't see as much of: defence aerospace, making drive shafts for cars, pills and drugs, designing chips that go into 94 per cent of the world's mobile phones. And so there's a danger that because it doesn't have a British flag on it, people won't realise that we actually do produce value. ↗

— Evan Davis

#aerospace #because #britain #british #cars

Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#bowl #brim #fill #keep #knife

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#much #pillars #seeing #studying #suffering