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1 " Faith is the ability to endure. "
― Michael R. French , Once Upon a Lie
2 " Rationality and calm self-determination were one of the great illusions of the universe... in the end, we were all ruled by our passions. "
3 " Falling in love is more than infatuation. It is the need to feel whole, to feel safe, to be healed, to join together with someone, heart and soul. "
― Michael R. French , Why Men Fall Out of Love: What Every Woman Needs to Understand
4 " Adversity does more than build character. It changes the way we see the world. "
― Michael R. French
5 " Albert Einstein was never clear if he believed in time travel, but had he raised a toddler, he certainly would have. "
6 " Your life can end at any time, and it can end more than once. But it can also begin more than once. "
― Michael R. French , The Reconstruction of Wilson Ryder
7 " We are not strangers. It’s a lack of trust that keeps us separated. "
8 " What's real and what's not? People we meet in books--Holden Caulfield, Captain Ahab, Huckleberry Finn, Harry Potter, Bilbo and Gandalf and Frodo-- can become more memorable, and more important to us than people with birth certificates and drivers' licenses. Characters spawned in an author's imagination find a home inside us. They make our lives richer. They become our best friends. They never disappoint. And they never die. "
9 " In general men keep their internal lives–and their more complex emotions–closely guarded, because either they don't understand them or they are afraid of being betrayed by them. "
10 " Racism and inequality are likened to a fungus which grows in dark places and is all the more poisonous because one cannot see it. "
11 " We must believe we are capable of transcending evil, of not needing to hide in the darkness or surrender to our basest fears. "
12 " Racism is not simply about one man's irrational hatred of another but his self-hatred, doubting his own moral goodness and purpose. "
13 " The liberation from ignorance and tyranny was a long war, because the oppressors always had the advantage. They smooth-talked the masses with lies and promises. "
14 " In our ever-changing universe, lives collide, and, like runaway planets, we just keep going. "
15 " When you're in love, there's nothing that can embarrass or surprise you. "
16 " Life brings only so much luck which when used up leaves you without a safety net. "
17 " Falling in love is different for everyone. "
18 " The view reminded of the Haitain proverb "Beyond mountains there are mountains" which meant that when you'd solved one problem, you couldn't rest because you had to go on and solve the next. "
― Michael R. French , Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World
19 " Virchow was the perfect role model for anyone who wanted to change the world, or at least lessen the inequality between the rich and poor. One of Farmer’s favorite Virchow quotes was “The physicians are the natural attorneys of the poor, and the social problems should largely be solved by them.” Virchow viewed the world in a way that made sense to Farmer, his vision a comprehensive one that included pathology—the study of disease—with social medicine, politics, and anthropology. Farmer, "
20 " At age twenty-six, Virchow wrote passionately that terrible social conditions in an impoverished part of Germany called Upper Silesia were the cause of a malaria and dysentery epidemic. His recommendation to the German government: if it wanted to do something about the epidemic, it needed to end the malnutrition, overcrowding, and poor hygiene. Better yet, he added, allow for a full and unlimited democracy in Upper Silesia. "
