A competitive culture endures by tearing people down.

School is indeed a training for later life not because it teaches the 3 Rs (more or less), but because it instills the essential cultural nightmare fear of failure, envy of success, and absurdity.

Up to a certain point anxiety is good, for it promotes action. Beyond that point we freeze any fixed attitudes or rush about without thinking deeply from one decision to another.

Most of the doctors in the Tunisian administration, especially those in country districts, contracted typhus and approximately one third of them died of it

My first attempts to transmit typhus to laboratory animals, including the smaller species of monkeys, had failed, as had those of my predecessors, for reasons which I can easily supply today

Of all the problems which were open to me for study, typhus was the most urgent and the most unexplored. We knew nothing of the way in which contagion spread

I was less successful in my attempts to effect preventive vaccination against typhus by using the virus and in trying to produce large quantities of serum using large animals

Will ye come with me?” he whispered.And she answered without hesitation. “Yes, please.

If I have a cause, it's the cause of the teacher.

Look at the people who review. Look at their commitment to being "right" and "safe". If I had listened to my critics I would have given up years ago.

I feel like I haven't done my best work yet. I feel like there's a world of possibilities out there.

And the wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws.

I am always making that what I am not capable, in an attempt to learn how to doing it.

The sky hides the night behind it and shelters the people beneath from the horror that lies above.

I really like The Vamps. Im friends with a couple of the guys from the band, so thats fun.

I'd describe myself as a pragmatist tinged with idealism.