"Scientists don't believe anything.Scientists test things."

-- Simon Conway Morris

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“The ego exists as a powerful force in Western man that cannot be dismissed or denied. The therapeutic goal is to integrate the ego with the body and its striving for pleasure and sexual fulfilment.”
“But in the meantime I became accustomed to the writing life and it would be hard to change now - partly because of the salary cut if I went to my other love, teaching; and partly because I still have stories to tell, even though it isn't all that fun doing the work anymore.”
“And all of these writers offer me a greater understanding of what it is to be alive, and that is such an incredible thing art can do for other people. It made me want to try and get close to this strange, mysterious thing that people can do with words.”
“America is America. It's a capitalist system. They [leaders] have enshrined that belief that profit matters more than anything else. The polarization of the society is just the resurfacing of that.”
“If there's any lesson I've learned in the last five years, it's don't be so sure about what lies ahead. There are amazing doors that could open,”

Source : "An Early Halloween Fright for Wall St.: Elizabeth Warren for Treasury Secretary?" by Sandra Sobieraj Westfall, people.com. October 22, 2014.
“A privilege may not be a right, but, under the constitution of the country, I do not gather that any broad distinction is drawn between the rights and the privileges that were enjoyed and that were taken away.”
“I got married when I was 16 so I had to do shift-work to make ends meet.”
“Don't you ever feel that - that you just need to get away? From everything? That it's all too much?”

Source : "In the Woods". Book by Tana French, 2008.

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