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In my opinion, our health care system has failed when a doctor fails to treat an illness that is treatable. ↗


— Kevin Alan Lee


#government #health-care #health-care-system #humanism #medical

It is the function of science to discover the existence of a general reign of order in nature and to find the causes governing this order. And this refers in equal measure to the relations of man - social and political - and to the entire universe as a whole. ↗


— Dmitri Mendeleev


#discover #entire #entire universe #equal #equal measure

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive. ↗


— Robert Louis Stevenson


#individualism #preference #independence

It is as if the Photograph always carries its referent with itself, both affected by the same amorous or funereal immobility, at the very heart of the moving world: they are glued together, limb by limb, like the condemned man and the corpse in certain tortures; or even like those pairs of fish (sharks, I think, according to Michelet) which navigate in convoy, as though united by an eternal coitus. ↗


— Roland Barthes


#referents #photography

Vulcan?" Leo demanded. "I don't even LIKE Star Trek! ↗


— Rick Riordan


#television

I was going to watch Project Runway," said Jace. "It's on next." "No, you're not," said Magnus. He snapped his fingers and the TV went off, releasing a small puff of smoke as the picture died. "You need to deal with this." "Suddenly you're interested in solving my problems?" "I'm interested in getting my apartment back. I'm tired of you cleaning all the time. ↗


— Cassandra Clare


#magnus-bane #tv-reference #television

Her stare fixed me. Without rancour and without regret; without triumph and without evil; as Desdemona once looked back on Venice. On the incomprehension, the baffled rage of Venice. I had taken myself to be in some way the traitor Iago punished, in an unwritten sixth act. Chained in hell. But I was also Venice; the state left behind; the thing journeyed from. ↗


— John Fowles


#distance #othello #outgrowing-others #personal-growth #reference-to-shakespeare

I think that most of us would prefer to be popular than unpopular. ↗


— Desmond Tutu


#i think #most #popular #prefer #than

Whatever happens in my life from now on, I know the day I finally die - the final act of my script - people will always make references to the work I've done with Almodovar. ↗


— Antonio Banderas


#always #day #die #done #final

The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly adopted, the second willfully preferred. ↗


— George Bancroft


#blindly #easily #first #ignorance #interest






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