Dan'S_mind

“A man is great not because he hasn't failed; a man is great because failure hasn't stopped him.”
― Confucius

“I felt ashamed of myself when I realized life was a costume party; and I attended with my real face.”
― Franz Kafka, The Trial

“What causes Alzheimer’s disease is a burning question because that holds the key to preventing it. The answer depends on how you define cause. The immediate cause may well be the formation of tau or amyloid-beta filaments in the brain. However, an earlier and root cause is the cell’s inability to manage the excess of unfolded proteins that aggregate to form these filaments”
― Venki Ramakrishnan, Why We Die: The New Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality

“In America, when you’re a Black man, you’re a boy. It doesn’t matter how old, or how educated. You’re a boy until the day you die. ‘Watch your mouth, boy. Don’t get smart, boy.’ ” He shrugged. “In France I’m a man.” “The Nazis don’t see you as a man.” “There are Nazis everywhere. They just go by different names.”
― Morgan Ryan, A Resistance of Witches