#tid

There is one thing that matters, to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people. ↗

— Logan Pearsall Smith

#few #matters #minds #one thing #people

Perhaps he's in love with Agatha', she said. 'I hope not. I intend to marry Agatha myself. She may be a thousand years old, but she makes an incomparable jam tart. Beauty fades, but cooking is eternal. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#tid #will-herondale #beauty

Physicians do not systematically prescribe placebos to their patients. Hence they have no way of comparing the effects of the drugs they prescribe to placebos. When they prescribe a treatment and it works, their natural tendency is to attribute the cure to the treatment. But there are thousands of treatments that have worked in clinical practice throughout history. Powdered stone worked. So did lizard's blood, and crocodile dung, and pig's teeth and dolphin's genitalia and frog's sperm. Patients have been given just about every ingestible - though often indigestible - substance imaginable. They have been 'purged, puked, poisoned, sweated, and shocked', and if these treatments did not kill them, they may have made them better. ↗

— Irving Kirsch

#history #treatments #imagination

They are trying to take you back from me now, and they will—but only for a brief, little while— ↗

— Maryrose Wood

#death #love #poison #weed #death

You can judge a leader by the size of the problem he tackles. Other people can cope with the waves, it's his job to watch the tide. ↗

— Antony Jay

#his #job #judge #leader #other

I'm in Alabama. First thing I want to say is Roll Tide! I was at the Alabama/Georgia game last year sitting right in the middle of the Alabama section and saw that they rolled all over them! ↗

— Brian Jordan

#first #first thing #game #georgia #i

We want to take good tidings home to our people, that they may sleep in peace. ↗

— Black Kettle

#good #home #may #our #our people

As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow. ↗

— Wally Lamb

#early #follow #go #humans #lions

We prepared to go ashore to publish for the first time in New Zealand the glad tidings of the gospel. ↗

— Samuel Marsden

#first #first time #glad #go #gospel

But when, in the first setting out, he takes it for granted without proof, that distinctions found in the structure of all languages, have no foundation in nature; this surely is too fastidious a way of treating the common sense of mankind. ↗

— Thomas Reid

#common sense #distinctions #fastidious #first #found