#v

I'd be nervous about skiing, wondering what I'd do if I felt shaky on top of a mountain; but other diabetics do ski, so there's no reason I couldn't. ↗

— Dana Hill

#felt #i #mountain #nervous #no reason

The electroencephalogram represents a continuous curve with continuous oscillations in which... one can distinguish larger first order waves with an average duration of 90 milliseconds and smaller second order waves of an average duration of 35 milliseconds. ↗

— Hans Berger

#continuous #curve #distinguish #duration #first

I wasn't even 20 at the time, but it taught me something about drugs. They can take a good man, a warm, funny, loving family man, and turn him into a loser and worse. ↗

— Michael Bergin

#about #even #family #family man #funny

What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time. ↗

— John Berger

#invention #light #makes #materials #photography

Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion. ↗

— John Berger

#cannot #common #emotion #envy #exist

Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one's self to be bored. ↗

— John Berger

#chain #dogs #must #never #sausages

The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget. ↗

— John Berger

#burden #camera #cynical #forget #god

We shall find in our troubled hearts, where discord reigns, two needs which seem at variance, but which merge, as I think, in a common source - the love of the true, and the love of the fabulous. ↗

— Alfred de Vigny

#discord #fabulous #find #hearts #i

Even in a society as tightly controlled as Singapore's, the market creates certain forces which perhaps in the long run may lead to democracy. ↗

— Peter L. Berger

#controlled #creates #democracy #even #forces

It's no fun to have HIV even though it's viewed as a chronic, controllable disease. It means being wedded to the health system. ↗

— Phil Berger

#chronic #controllable #disease #even #fun