"There is no real ending. Itâ€™s just the place where you stop the story."

-- Frank Herbert

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“You come across [online comments] about yourself and about your friends, and it's a very dehumanizing thing,It's almost like how, in war, you go through this bloody, dehumanizing thing ... My hope is, as we get out of it, we'll reach the next level of conscience.”
“Companies arenâ€™t families. Theyâ€™re battlefields in a civil war. Yet despite this capacity for internecine warfare, most companies roll along relatively peacefully, year after year, because they have routinesâ€”habitsâ€”that create truces that allow everyone to set aside their rivalries long enough to get a dayâ€™s work done.”
“My own emotional health issues were bullying me during the time I was drafting that poem. It was a pressure I couldn't pin down or diagnose. And like many, if not most, writers I had the self-consciousness to recognize it made great conditions for writing.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“One reason which I find particularly fascinating about Israel is this. There is no such thing as a Jewish civilization. There is a Jewish culture, a Jewish religion, but there is no such thing as a Jewish civilization. The Jews were a component basically of two civilizations. In the Western world, we talk about the Judeo-Christian tradition and you talk about the Judeo-Islamic tradition because there were large and important Jewish communities living in the lands of Islam.”
“I like to have nice conversations with a man that teach me something, make me mad, make me curious. Then I find him attractive.”
“Conscious mind is a spatial analog of the world and mental acts are analogs of bodily acts. Consciousness operates only on objectively observable things. Or, to say it another way with echoes of John Locke, there is nothing in consciousness that is not an analog of something that was in behavior first.”

Source : Julian Jaynes (2000). “The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind”, p.76, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I am a song bird, I am a meek song bird, I offer my prayer to the Lord.”
“We have a great life here in Alaska, and we're never going back to America again!”

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