"In no case may we interpret an action [of an animal] as the outcome of the exercise of a higher psychical faculty, if it can be interpreted as the outcome of the exercise of one which stands lower in the psychological scale."

-- C. Lloyd Morgan

#Exercise Quotes #Animal Quotes #Outcomes Quotes

“As for poverty, no one need be ashamed to admit it, the real shame is in not taking practical measures to escape from it.”

Source : "History of the Peloponnesian War (Book 2)". Book by Thucydides, 431 BC.
“I'm from Port Arthur, Texas! Little guy! Little character guy from one of the saddest oil-refinery towns in America. And here I was driving over to Beverly Hills, to 20th Century Fox, to be on 'M*A*S*H!'”

Source : Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. August 26, 2008.
“Hippolytus can feel, and feels nothing for me!”
“The truth is, I can choose to view tough times as growing times, I can choose to see aging as seasoning and I can choose to focus on whatever good there is to be found in living. I choose. After all, it's my point of view.”
“To be shaken out of the ruts of ordinary perception, to be shown for a few timeless hours the outer and the inner world, not as they appear to an animal obsessed with words and notions, but as they are apprehended, directly and unconditionally, by Mind at Large-This is the experience of inestimable value to everyone.”
“Infinity is just time on an ego trip.”
“To ignore or use silence is a cruel tool. Hence this quote: Silence is all we dread; there's ransom in a voice; but silence is infinity.”
“The capacity of man himself is only revealed when, under stress and responsibility, he breaks through his educational shell, and he may then be a splendid surprise to himself no less than to this teachers.”

Source : Harvey Cushing (1940). “Consecratio Medici: And Other Papers”

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