Michael Pollan book The Omnivore's Dilemma
Source: The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
Source: Samuel Hine, Brunello Cucinelli: the fashion designer who believes simple, communal meals feed the soul https://www.gq.com/story/how-to-find-your-best-diet/amp, GQ magazine, February 2020, p. 60
Michael Pollan book The Omnivore's Dilemma
Source: The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
B.K.S. Iyengar (1918–2014) Indian yoga teacher and scholar
Source: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom, P.xxii
“They might break our bodies (a microbe can do that) but they need not dominate our minds.”
Clive Staples Lewis (1898–1963) Christian apologist, novelist, and Medievalist
On Living in an Atomic Age (1948)
Context: If we are going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb when it comes find us doing sensible and human things — praying, working, teaching, reading, listening to music, bathing the children, playing tennis, chatting to our friends over a pint and a game of darts — not huddled together like frightened sheep and thinking about bombs. They might break our bodies (a microbe can do that) but they need not dominate our minds.
Anne Brontë book The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XLV : Reconciliation; Gilbert to Helen
Zakir Hussain (politician) (1897–1969) 3rd President of India
Source: Uniqueness of Zakir Husain and His Contributions (1997), p. 19.
Sallustius Roman philosopher and writer
although many engines move without being touched by any one
VIII. On Mind and Soul, and that the latter is immortal.
On the Gods and the Cosmos
Octavia E. Butler book Parable of the Talents
Source: Parable of the Talents (1998), Chapter 20 (p. 391)