#r

Though denigrated by some outside academia and research, she embraced knowledge for its own sake and what better way to honor that than reveling in the intricacies of the brain? If there were any answers to the human condition, if an immortal soul made its home anywhere, it was in its spongy gray folds. ↗

— Thomm Quackenbush

#consciousness #soul #dreams

The Wolf snarled, tensing his muscles, as if he wished he could climb the tree after the feline. "One day I will catch you on the ground, cat," he said through bared teeth. "And you won't even know I'm there until I tear your head off." "You have been saying that since before humans had fire, dog," Grimalkin replied, completely undisturbed. "You'll have to forgive me if I don't hold my breath." - The Big Bad Wolf and Grimalkin ↗

— Julie Kagawa

#forgiveness

Hey, you got something going here. I think we've got a chance for some progressive policy that actually focuses on poor and working people. ↗

— Cornel West

#chance #focuses #going #got #here

Black people have been working hard for decades. ↗

— Cornel West

#black #decades #hard #people #working

I am excited to have a black president because white supremacy is real and it needs to be shattered. ↗

— Cornel West

#because #black #excited #i #i am

I'm not saying that President Obama should be exempt from criticism, nor do I believe it is some act of racial treason for a black person to hold our president accountable for his actions. ↗

— Cornel West

#act #actions #believe #black #criticism

I think it is impossible to explain faith. It is like trying to explain air, which one cannot do by dividing it into its component parts and labeling them scientifically. It must be breathed to be understood. ↗

— Patrick White

#breathed #cannot #component #dividing #explain

We know from our clinical experience in the practice of medicine that in diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment, the individual and his background of heredity are just as important, if not more so, as the disease itself. ↗

— Paul Dudley White

#clinical #diagnosis #disease #experience #heredity

God places the heaviest burden on those who can carry its weight. ↗

— Reggie White

#carry #god #heaviest #places #those

But the Bible speaks against it, and because the Bible speaks against it, we allow rampant sin including homosexuality and lying, and to me lying is just as b ad as homosexuality, and we've allowed this sin to run rampant in our nation. ↗

— Reggie White

#against #allow #allowed #because #bible