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"In the first eight or so years at Microsoft, we were always chained to our terminals, and after I got sick the first time, I decided that I was going to be more adventurous and explore more of the world."
"The Science of Mind is intensely practical because it teaches us how to use the Mind Principle for definite purposes, such as helping those who are sick, impoverished, or unhappy."
"You could stand here sick with ten illnesses today, and tomorrow have no evidence of any of them. Your body has the ability to replenish itself that fast. But most of you do not have the ability to change your thoughts that fast. So the amount of time that it takes between sickness and wellness is only the amount of time that it takes for me to figure out how to let it in - for me to figure out how to feel good, when I'm looking at something that makes me feel bad."
"It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth."
"I was a time bomb waiting to detonate, burned out, sick of the music business, out of touch with everything and heavily abusing various substances, disillusioned with life, and intensely needed to work on my character. The only way I could see to do that was to withdraw completely from public life as I had known it before."
"People ask me why I don't tweet. Honestly, I'm so sick of myself."
"I'm sick. I've eaten civilisation and I'm sick."
"We need to accept the seemingly obvious fact that a toxic environment can make people sick and that no amount of medical intervention can protect us. The health care community must become a powerful political lobby for environmental policy and legislation."
"[A] sick mind cannot be cured by the sheer force of persuasion."
"Thought is like a bubble rising to the surface. When thought is joined to will, we call it power. That which strikes the sick person whom you are trying to help is not thought, but power."
"I may have made a straight A in physics, but I was panic-struck. Physics made me sick the whole time I learned it."
"When you are sick of your sickness you will cease to be sick."
"A mind ill with negative attitudes is more dangerous than a sick body, for its sickness is always contagious."
"I am sick of women who love one. Women who hate one are much more interesting."
"All I want is a gentleman. I'm sick to bloody death of bastards."
"I am a sick man...I am a spiteful man. I am a most unpleasant man."
"Gracefulness cannot subsist without ease; delicacy is not debility; nor must a woman be sick in order to please. Infirmity, and sickness may excite our pity, but desire and pleasure require the bloom and vigor of health."
"When I face the desolate impossibility of writing five hundred pages, a sick sense of failure falls on me, and I know I can never do it. Then gradually, I write one page and then another. One day's work is all I can permit myself to contemplate."
"I want a new drug, one that won't make me sick. One that won't make me crash my car, or make my head three feet thick."
"If I had my way, I would build a lethal chamber as big as the Crystal Palace, with a military band playing softly, and a Cinematograph working brightly; then I'd go out in the back streets and main streets and bring them in, all the sick, the halt, and the maimed; I would lead them gently, and they would smile me a weary thanks; and the band would softly bubble out the 'Hallelujah Chorus'."
