Conduciveness Quotes & Sayings

There are certain mutations you can find across cancers in different organs. — Eric Topol

Unfortunately for our esteem, societies of the West are not known for their conduciveness to the surrender of pretensions, to the acceptance of age or fat, let alone poverty and obscurity. — Alain De Botton

The Klingons are not calling to the warriors within us to seek out death. They are calling us to live every moment of every day as our best selves, so that should death arrive unbidden, we may face it without regret. — Kirsten Beyer

There is no record in the history of a nation that ever gained anything valuable by being unable to defend itself. — H.L. Mencken

What was threatening was cold, hard intelligence. — Michael Lewis

The one thing that will finally make you feel you aren't missing something essential, such as the point. — Augusten Burroughs

I suspect any serious reader has a first great book, just the way anybody has a first kiss. — Michael Cunningham

Another significant factor that increased pressure on the Jews was the rise of the mendicant orders of preaching friars, the Dominicans and the Franciscans. The Dominicans in particular were to become leaders in the campaign against the Jews. Saint Dominic probably never imagined that his order would initiate the Spanish Inquisition and oversee the public immolation of heretics. The only torment he advocated was self-directed. — Jeffrey Gorsky

I am but a poor struggling soul yearning to be wholly good, wholly truthful and wholly non-violent in thought, word and deed, but ever failing to reach the ideal which I know to be true. It is a painful climb, but each step upwards makes me feel stronger and fit for the next. — Mahatma Gandhi

If we sit by and become complacent and put our heads in the sand, we're complicit. — Shelley Morrison

Dad was a chemistry professor at Saint Olaf College in Minnesota, then Oxford College in Minnesota, and a very active member of the American Chemical Society education committee, where he sat on the committee with Linus Pauling, who had authored a very phenomenally important textbook of chemistry. — Peter Agre