"Your conscious life is an elaborate after-the-fact rationalization of things you really do for other reasons."

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Source : "The Tell-Tale Brain". Book by Vilayanur S. Ramachandran, 2010.

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

#Facts Quotes #Life Is Quotes #Reason Quotes

“And I think most people in this country want to see a president that's got the courage to say we're going to cut the tax burden, and reduce the regulatory climate, and we're going to get Americans working.”
“Natural selection is anything but random.”
“Occupy Wall Street is a real movement.”
“I'm glad you asked me that. This gives me the perfect opportunity to talk about the problems with this Congress...”
“Strategy will compensate the talent. The talent will never compensate the strategy.”
“Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen.”
“Ray Cummins is my good friend and one of the best finger pickers around.”
“The results of the Great Society experiments started coming in and began showing that, for all its good intentions, the War on Poverty was causing irreparable damage to the very communities it was designed to help.”

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