"We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death."

-- David Sarnoff

#Death Quotes #Danger Quotes #Awe Quotes

“Beginning under the Roman Empire, intellectual leadership in the West had been provided by Christianity. In the middle ages, who invented the first universities - in Paris, Oxford, Cambridge? The church.”
“It's a great question about what is our mind. Undoubtedly a creation of our brain.”

Source : Gazeta Wyborcza Interview, December 24-26, 2011.
“[T]he syndrome known as life is too diffuse to admit of palliation. For every symptom that is eased, another is made worse. The horse leech's daughter is a closed system. Her quantum of wantum cannot vary.”
“It's important for me to let my fans know I really don't care. I'm confident.”
“Once, when we were playing at the Apollo Theater, Holiday was working a block away at the Harlem Opera House. Some of us went over between shows to catch her, and afterwards we went backstage. I did something then, and I still don't know if it was the right thing to doâ€”I asked her for her autograph.”
“Sex is a natural function. You can't make it happen, but you can teach people to let it happen.”

Source : "Virginia Johnson obituary" by Suzie Hayman, www.theguardian.com. July 28, 2013.
“It's like peanut butter and chocolate. Each is great, but they're better together.”
“The disassociation between inner belief and outer behaviour allowed many people to enjoy a sense of retaining their inner decency while at the same time not risking any loss of livelihood, any compromise over career ambitions, let alone any potentially more sanctions; hence never revealing any signs of disagreement or openly showing anything less than apparently full commitment to the regime and its policies”

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