Quote by Lewis Thomas
The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from s

The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand. – Lewis Thomas

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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 on society. – Lewis Thomas

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The great secret of medicine, known to doctors but still hidden from the public, is that most things get better by themselves. – Lewis Thomas

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Much of todays public anxiety about science is the apprehension that we may forever be overlooking the whole by an endless, obsessive preoccupation with the parts. – Lewis Thomas

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I like the word “indolence.” It makes my laziness seem classy. – Bern Williams

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What words say does not last. The words last. Because words are always the same, and what they say is never the same. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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We have too many high sounding words and too few actions that correspond with them. – Abigail Adams

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For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me. – Winnie the Pooh (A.A. Milne)

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