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“‘the freedom of individuals verbally to oppose or challenge police action without thereby risking arrest is one of the principal characteristics by which we distinguish a free nation from a police state.’”

“The whole structure of misdemeanor justice… seems intended to subject the urban poor to a series of petty but cumulative blows to their dignity as citizens of equal standing” - Jonathan Simon

“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change”

“A human being in perfection ought always to preserve a calm and peaceful mind, and never to allow passion or a transitory desire to disturb his tranquillity.”

Immediately thought of Lygus (HSR)

“research money is the life’s blood of science today”
- As someone who would love to research rare diseases, I feel dejected! There will always be a lack of funding in diseases that don’t provoke a large population of people.

“had been attacked by pathologists, physicians, veterinarians, [but] it became clear that this was a wonderful problem for a chemist”
- so much of medical history involves someone other than the doctor solving a disease

“Just like that, I had been reborn as a girl divorced from her family name, orphaned from her Chinese past”.