"Dr. Kertesz mentioned to me a case known to him of a farmer who had developed prosopagnosia and in consequence could no longer distinguish (the faces of) his cows, and of another such patient, an attendant in a Natural History Museum, who mistook his own reflection for the diorama of an ape"

-- Oliver Sacks

#Reflection Quotes #Museums Quotes #Drs Quotes

“Your business is never really good or bad 'out there.' Your business is either good or bad right between your own two ears.”
“All I know about thermal pollution is that if we continue our present rate of growth in electrical energy consumption it will simply take, by the year 2000, all our freshwater streams to cool the generators and reactors.”
“Writing is a skill, not a talent, and this difference is important because a skill can be improved by practice.”
“Pirate historians have now discovered social history, the branch of history which in the last two decades or so has been the most dynamic and inventive, in both senses of the word.”

Source : Peter Earle (2013). “The Pirate Wars”, p.4, Macmillan
“Painters get up and paint. Writers get up and write. I like to get up and act. It's not a big deal. It makes me happy.”
“I just look like someone with a long face. Not just A. P. McCoy himself, but some of the horses he rides.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“If you want to learn the craft of war, ponder over this book. The teacher is as a needle, the disciple is as thread. You must practice constantly.”
“Among the flowers no perfume is like mine; That which is best in me comes from within. So those in this world who would rise and shine Should seek internal excellence to win. And though 'tis true that falsehood and despair Meet in my name, yet bear it still in mind That where they meet they perish. All is fair When they are gone and nought remains behind.”

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