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Off Quotes by Lewis Thomas
- Animals, even plants, lie to each other all the time, and we could restrict the research to them, putting off the real truth about ourselves…
- Montaigne simply turns his mind loose and writes whatever he feels like writing. Mostly, he wants to say that reason is not a special, unique…
- As a people, we have become obsessed with Health. There is something fundamentally, radically unhealthy about all this. We do not seem to be seeking…
- If we had better hearing, and could discern the descants of sea birds, the rhythmic tympani of schools of mollusks, or even the distant harmonics…
- The act of smelling something, anything, is remarkably like the act of thinking. Immediately at the moment of perception, you can feel the mind going…
- Altruism has always been one of biology's deep mysteries. Why should any animal, off on its own, specified and labeled by all sorts of signals…
- There's really no such thing as the agony of dying. I'm quite sure that pain is shut off at the moment of death. You see,…
- If you want to use a cliche you must take full responsibility for it yourself and not try to fob it off on anon., or…
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