"In this century we have made remarkable material progress, but basically we are the same as we were thousands of years ago. Our spiritual needs are still very great."

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“People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the actual reality is the opposite, just many people doing things that build on each other, like a wall of mini stones.”
“Being a professional wrestler was never one of my goals in life. I always wanted to be some kind of entertainer. I used to want to be a rock singer or a guitar player but I can't sing and I can't play the guitar.”
“I say to my team all the time that this is how I grew up: Always thinking that, at any minute, I could be unemployed. You have to scramble. You have to work hard and get ahead of things.”
“The senses collect the surface facts of matter... It was sensation; when memory came, it was experience; when mind acted, it was knowledge; when mind acted on it as knowledge, it was thought.”
“Nothing succeeds like - failure.”
“He blinked a few times, each motion so slow that he was never quite sure if heâ€™d get his eyes open again. He wasnâ€™t wearing a shirt. Funny how he was only just realizing it. Funnier still that he couldnâ€™t seem to summon any concern for her maidenly sensibilities. She might be blushing. He couldnâ€™t tell. It was too dark to see. But it didnâ€™t matter. This was Honoria. She was a good egg. A sensible egg. She wouldnâ€™t be scarred forever by the sight of his chest.”
“We assume that we have free will and that we make decisions, but we don't. Neurons do. We decide that this sum total driving us is a decision we have made for ourselves. But it is not.”

Source : "The Electric Brain". Interview with Lauren Aguirre, www.pbs.org. October 23, 2001.
“Tell me a boat full of lawyers just sank.”

Source : Song: Nothin' But a Woman, Album: Strong Persuader, 1986

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