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Quotes About Sterilized

The surface of Mars is bathed in ultraviolet light, bathed in radiation. Mars's magnetic field is essentially gone, so the surface of Mars is essentially sterilized.
~ John M. Grunsfeld
When brought to meaning, all importance becomes small, as in death, all life seems nothing. Knowing is destroyed by thinking, not destroyed but sterilized; distilled into knowledge. Thinking, the processing of knowing to knowledge.
~ William Wharton
Intelligence, that sublimation of the sensibility, that organ of the need to know, is sterilized sensibility.
~ Remy de Gourmont
there's no way we can ever hope to understand ourselves if we don't at least marginally understand our home. That is the understanding we need to put our lives in some bigger metaphysical context. Instead, Eustace sees a chilling sight- a citizenry so removed from the rhythm of nature that we march through our lives as mere sleepwalkers, blinded, deafened, and senseless. Robotically existing in sterilized surroundings that numb the mind, weaken the body, and atrophy the soul.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
People say they want to die in their own home. But me, I was ready for the hospital. The sterilized sheets, the machines, the whole bit. It just seemed easier there. Easier to cast myself off, I mean.
~ Kevin Brockmeier
A man's lip is not like the paw of Attila's horse, which sterilized the ground which it struck; it is just the opposite. ?Chapter
~ Machado de Assis
I think we have a very Disneyfied, sterilized version of what an evil witch is nowadays.
~ Anya Taylor-Joy
Monotony is the most beautiful or the most atrocious thing. The most beautiful if it is a reflection of eternity--the most atrocious if it is the sign of an unvarying perpetuity. It is time surpassed or time sterilized.
~ Simone Weil
En Colombia no hay más esterilizada que ella misma, a la que, como con un cauterio, entre periodistas y políticos, la iglesia y la FIFA, le esterilizaron el alma.
~ Fernando Vallejo
I really think that people who want to think more serious have to go and watch theater. Theater is a very sterilized art form. Not as much as music, but very close to music.
~ Asghar Farhadi
The encapsulated bird your conspirators sent you to fetch. The sterilized male chicken with the Creator DNA sequences. The plot capon. Where is it?
~ Charles Stross
In the bathroom two water tumblers were sealed in cellophane sacks with the words: These glasses are sterilized for your protection. Across the toilet seat a strip of paper bore the message: This seat has been sterilized with ultraviolet light for your protection. Everyone was protecting me and it was horrible.
~ John Steinbeck