"Indeed, it is sometimes almost as if the problem had to be forgotten to be solved."

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Source : Julian Jaynes (2000). “The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind”, p.54, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Julian Jaynes

#Problem Quotes #Sometimes Quotes #Forgotten Quotes

“No Angie, it's instant. Like when someone trips in the cafeteria and you're laughing so hard milk comes out of your nose, the guy next to you is laughing so hard he accidentally farts. BOOM! Friends for life!”
“I feel like an old lady; my hero is Miss Marple.”
“The only certainty life contains is death.”
“I tend to support and get behind issues instead of candidates, because of the whole 'Super Bowl' generalization of our world - You're on this side, I'm on that side; you're a Republican, I'm a Democrat; you're country music, I'm rock music.”
“Rocket science is tough, and rockets have a way of failing.”
“Save the Children is often told that its aims are impossible - that there has always been child suffering and there always will be. We know. It's impossible only if we make it so. It's impossible only if we refuse to attempt it.”
“I love cats. I've had cats as pets.”
“When I see big movies that are only about good versus evil, and the good guy wins, I only can think we're in a far more complicated world than that. I frankly think that this binary philosophy is actually a dangerous way to look at the world.”

Source : Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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