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Emotion literally means “disturbance.” The word comes from the Latin emovere, meaning “to disturb.”
“I had forgotten the rules, an error as dangerous on the Upper West Side of Manhattan as on the Westside of Baltimore.”
― Between the World and Me
― Between the World and Me
“You don't have to be in chains to be a slave.”
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“In culture, cancer cells can go on dividing indefinitely, if they have a continual supply of nutrients, and thus are said to be “immortal.” A striking example is a cell line that has been reproducing in culture since 1951. (Cells of this line are called HeLa cells because their original source was a tumor removed from a woman named Henrietta Lacks.)”
― The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
― The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
“the crop function on Paint”
― Everything I Know About Love
― Everything I Know About Love
“The day McKinley was shot—he would die from his wounds eight days later—Robert Todd Lincoln was once again standing with the president, thus earning the dubious distinction of being the only man to be present at three of our nation’s four presidential assassinations.”
― Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
― Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
The World's Literature in India
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