"With the exception of certain rodents, no other vertebrate except Homo sapiens habitually destroys members of his own species."

-- Anthony Storr

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“I do partake in a couple of drinks now and again, but I've never drank to feel alive.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“I believe that a guarantee of public access to government information is indispensable in the long run for any democratic society.... if officials make public only what they want citizens to know, then publicity becomes a sham and accountability meaningless.”

Source : Sissela Bok (2011). “Secrets: On the Ethics of Concealment and Revelation”, p.179, Vintage
“My mom was always late. It drove me crazy as a child. So I'm always on time - or early.”
“Few men think, yet all will have opinions.”

Source : George Berkeley (1843). “Works, Including His Letters to Thomas Prior, Dean Gervais, Mr. Pope, &c. to which is Prefixed an Account of His Life”, p.187
“The nervous system and the automatic machine are fundamentally alike in that they are devices, which make decisions on the basis of decisions they made in the past.”

Source : Norbert Wiener (1988). “The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society”, p.33, Da Capo Press
“You can't outsmart or outguess the audience in terms of what the narrative answer is.”

Source : "‘Hunted’ creator Frank Spotnitz on his new Cinemax drama & ‘The X-Files’ legacy". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. October 19, 2012.
“Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to wisdom, to enlightenment.”
“To me, art almost always speaks more forcefully when it appears in an imperfect, accidental, and fragmentary way, somehow just signaling its presence, allowing one to feel it through the ineptitude of the interpretation. I prefer the Chopin that reaches me in the street from an open window to the Chopin served in great style from the concert stage.”

Source : Witold Gombrowicz (1988). “Diary”, p.32, Northwestern University Press

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