(Stuff I've either said, heard, read, or thought about recently that sticks out.)
- Maze Runner was based on a book? Oh. I thought it was based on Temple Run. - F.
- For almost thirty years now I have listened to the Israelis say to the Palestinians what I first heard the Afrikaners say to the blacks and coloreds. We are good people; if you just behave, we will give you most of what you are asking for. Oppressors do all they can to prevent use of the category of justice; they do all they can to cast the situation in terms of better and worse rather than justice and injustice, in terms of good behavior and bad behavior, in terms of benevolence. Nicholas Wolterstorff (2007-12-26). Justice: Rights and Wrongs (Kindle Locations 218-221). Princeton University Press - A. Kindle Edition.
- A VIRUS IS a small capsule made of membranes and proteins. The capsule contains one or more strands of DNA or RNA, which are long molecules that contain the software program for making a copy of virus. Some biologists classify viruses as "life forms," because they are not strictly known to be alive. Viruses are ambiguously alive, neither alive nor dead. They carry on their existence in the borderlands between life and non-life. They are dead. They can even form crystals. Virus particles that lie around in blood or mucus may seem dead, but the particles are waiting for something to come along. They have a sticky surface. If a cell comes along and touches the virus and the stickiness of the virus matches the stickiness of the cell, then the virus clings to the cell. The cell feels the virus sticking to it and enfolds the virus and drags it inside. Once the virus enters the cell, it becomes a Trojan horse. It switches on and begins to replicate. Richard Preston, The Hot Zone,
- They were two human primates carrying another primate.
- The cross is in all life. It is in the earth; the seed dies that the plant may live. It is in the landscape; the mountain is bare and barren that the vale may be rich and fecund. The valleys stand so thick with corn. Aye, they do! And they do it by the soil washed from the mountain. The cross is in your blood. What are the white corpuscles doing in your blood-stream? Watching for infection! When they find it, they absorb it, but they too, in their turn must be absorbed by the newly created cells which take their place, or the blood would stagnate and the body would die. William E. Sangster, "He Dies. He Must Die" (1960), Classic Sermons on the Cross of Christ
- Have you ever seen the germs that cause disease magnified for examination? They are most interesting to look at. They have such curious shapes; even beautiful shapes, some of them. It is possible to take an artist's interest in them and half forget the deadly nature they possess. But now go straight from that magnified specimen-glass and see the germ at its deadly work in the hospital ward. Look! This is Lupus at work. You were specially drawn to that magnified bacillus. It seemed so innocent; even pleasing to look upon. Yet that germ is doing this; it is eating that man's living flesh away. On and on it goes and nothing, it seems, can arrest it. You didn't know the deadly character of that bacillus when you first looked at it. It seemed just cute and you could discuss it with academic detachment. But what does it do? It does this!
- Supin, dude, you just let me down. In fact, you constantly let me down. In fact, when I die, I'm gonna let you lower me into my grave so that you can let me down one last time. - F.
- It was a mistake. But it was the kind of mistake you don't regret making for how you've learned from it. - F.
