Melinda M. Snodgrass (1951) American writer
Source: Queen's Gambit Declined (1989), Chapter 18 (p. 231)
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John Taylor Gatto (1935–2018) American teacher, book author
Source: The Exhausted School: Bending The Bars of Traditional Education, Berkeley Hills Books; 2 edition (2002) p. 156
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“… the heart is an organ of fire.”
Michael Ondaatje book The English Patient
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel book Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences
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“The human heart was undeniably the stupidest organ in the body.”
Francine Pascal (1938) American writer
“The bleeding-heart symbol does not represent any known revolutionary organization.”
Larry Niven (1938) American writer
Source: A Gift From Earth (1968), Ch. 12 : The Slowboat
Context: The bleeding-heart symbol does not represent any known revolutionary organization. … Yes, the bleeding heart was something else again. A gruesome symbol on a vivarium floor. Fingers that broke without their owner noticing. An ink drawing appearing from nowhere on a dossier cover, like a signature. A signature.
“Turning to God with the deep of the heart is much better than tiring the organs.”
Muhammad al-Taqi (811–835) ninth of the Twelve Imams of Twelver Shi'ism
[Baqir Sharīf al-Qurashi, The life of Imam Muhammad al-Jawad, From the Reality of Faith, 2005]
Ad-Durr an-Nadhīm, p.223.