Famous quotes containing the word severe:
“The Harmless Torturers. In the Bad Old Days, each torturer inflicted severe pain on one victim. Things have now changed. Each of the thousand torturers presses a button, thereby turning the switch once on each of the thousand instruments. The victims suffer the same severe pain. But none of the torturers makes any victims pain perceptibly worse.”
—Derek Parfit (b. 1943)
“In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.”
—Marcus Tullius Cicero (10643 B.C.)
“Its unthinkable not to loveyoud have a severe nervous breakdown. Or youd have to be Philip Larkin.”
—Lawrence Durrell (19121990)
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