Mill Naire Quotes & Sayings

it becomes probable that the so-called immaterial hysterical affection and hypochondriacal disease derive from the dispositions of the particular state of the fibers." It is to this sensibility, this mobility, that we must attribute the sufferings, the spasms, the singular pains so readily suffered by "young girls of pale complexion, and individuals too much given to study and meditation. — Michel Foucault

LINCKLAEN, JOHN. (Agent of the Holland Land Company.) Journals of Travels into Pennsylvania, New York and Vermont (1791-1792). Translated from French by Helen Lincklaen Fairchild. With biographical sketch and notes. New York, Putnams: 1897. — Anonymous

Ronon Dex could drop Edward Cullen with a look. — Annalyse Tar

The striking thing is that WHO doesn't really have the authority to do any of this. It can't tell governments what to do. It hires no vaccinators, distributes no vaccine. It is a small Geneva bureaucracy run by several hundred international delegates whose annual votes tell the organization what to do but not how to do it. ... The only substantial resource that WHO has cultivated is information and expertise. — Atul Gawande

I feel a deep sense of responsibility to share everything that we've learned from TOMS, so that others can learn from both our mistakes and the counterintuitive principles that have guided our success. — Blake Mycoskie

Writing is, in the end, that oddest of anomalies: an intimate letter to a stranger. — Pico Iyer

The Keynesian belief that 'demand' is always at the root of underemployment and slow growth is a fallacy. — Edmund Phelps

twenty in number, ranging in age from sixteen — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.