#ring

We're all human beings, but some of us are more sophisticated at covering our flaws. We're just smart enough to lie to ourselves that everything is OK. ↗

— Mehmet Oz

#covering #enough #everything #flaws #human

I think that we're beginning to globalize medicine now. You have to take Eastern approaches and bring them to the West, and share West with the East. ↗

— Mehmet Oz

#beginning #bring #east #eastern #i

If I make your workplace conducive to walking at lunch, or working out at some time during the day, or I get people to use the stairs more by creating incentives to do such, then people will start doing it naturally. ↗

— Mehmet Oz

#creating #day #doing #during #get

Religion was used as an ideology, as a system of control. When they forced the veil upon women, they were using it as an instrument of control in the same way that in Mao's China people were wearing Mao jackets and women were not supposed to wear any makeup. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#china #control #forced #ideology #instrument

The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power. ↗

— Nikola Tesla

#civilisation #ever #feeble #fire #first

That's what I like about acting. When you're preparing for a role, you do your research, and the bonus is you get to learn these skills. Now, it's on to whatever the next thing is I have to learn. ↗

— Parminder Nagra

#acting #bonus #get #i #learn

What brings people down is the same thing over and over. ↗

— Meg Ryan

#down #over #people #same #thing

My education began in the public schools of Wilmington. During most of these years, from about age 10, I also worked at some job or other after school, on weekends, and in the summer months. ↗

— Daniel Nathans

#after #age #also #began #during

During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. ↗

— George Orwell

#becomes #deceit #during #revolutionary #telling

The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them. ↗

— George Orwell

#atrocities #capacity #committed #disapprove #does