"I am always true to myself, that is the problem. Who else could I be true to?"

-- Adam Phillips

#Assessment Quotes #Problem Quotes #Being True Quotes

“We can construct, deconstruct and reconstruct our sexuality any way we want: it is our privilege as thinking creatures. However, human sexuality has a specific nature, regardless of what we believe or say about it. We are more likely to be satisfied with the outcome, if we work with our biology rather than against it. We will be happier if we face reality on its own terms.”
“Never run after a man or a bus, there's always another one in five minutes.”

Source : Cherry Adair (2007). “Kiss and Tell”, p.196, Ballantine Books
“Body armor. Four thousand pounds of body armor. And missile-proof glass? Nice. What had happened to good old-fashioned bulletproof?”
“Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate.”
“We cannot develop and print a memory.”
“Growing up, if I hadn't had sports, I don't know where I'd be. God only knows what street corners I'd have been standing on and God only knows what I'd have been doing, but instead I played hockey and went to school and stayed out of trouble.”
“Mathematics is a presuppositionless science. To found it I do not need God, as does Kronecker, or the assumption of a special faculty of our understanding attuned to the principle of mathematical induction, as does PoincarÃ©, or the primal intuition of Brouwer, or, finally, as do Russell and Whitehead, axioms of infinity, reducibility, or completeness, which in fact are actual, contentual assumptions that cannot be compensated for by consistency proofs.”

Source : "Grundlagen der Mathematik". Book by David Hilbert, 1927.
“I was always a very indoor videogame nerd movie buff... Now I've come to appreciate Scouts and the outdoors.”

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