"The general tendency of evolution is from structure to function, from bondage to freedom of the individual elements."

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Source : Boris Sidis, Simon Philip Goodhart (1905). “Multiple Personality: An Experimental Investigation Into the Nature of Human Individuality”

Boris Sidis

#Elements Quotes #Evolution Quotes #Individual Quotes

“People are so cheap. Everyone wants quality, no one wants to pay for it. Here's the suburban dream-- to hire great workers who are such meek morons that they don't have the guts to ask for a living wage.”
“Of course I had the parallel of having the early years of my life being spent during apartheid, and then having a lot of awful poverty going on around me while I lived in this bubble of middle-classness, but I was a child, and I only really started to (I hope) understand all of that fairly recently.”
“Creativity is a highfalutin' word for the work I have to do between now and Tuesday.”
“Whatever makes an impression on the heart seems lovely in the eye.”
“That has been the great achievement of our age: to so thoroughly flood the planet with megabits that every image and fact has become a digitized disembodied nothingness. With magnificent determination, our species has advanced from Stone Age to Industrial Revolution to Digital Emptiness. We've become weightless, in the bad sense of the word.”
“Hey fellas! This is what you work all off season for. This is why you lift all them weights! This is why you do all that!”
“The words and sentences you take into your body from books are no less sacred and healing than communion. Surely at least one such person lives in your zip code.”

Source : Mary Karr (2001). “Cherry”, p.173, Penguin
“When a child is born the mother also is born again.”

Source : Gilbert Parker (1913). “The lane that had no turning and other associated tales concerning the people of Pontiac. Parables of a province”

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