"Amongst the minds of animals that of man leads, not as a demigod from another planet, but as a king from the same race."

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Source : Edward Lee Thorndike (1924). “The Evolution of the Human Intellect”

Edward Thorndike

#Kings Quotes #Animal Quotes #Men Quotes

“It's symbolic of how I feel, with cameras on every street corner. Being watched all the time, having my sense of freedom invaded. Privacy is an important thing, and it has been eroded over the past few years. Now they're talking about body scans at airports. Democracy becomes a sham the second you have to give way to authorities who can do any kind of search that they want with you.”
“To remain neutral, in a situation where the laws of the land virtually criticized God for having created men of color, was the sort of thing I could not, as a Christian, tolerate.”
“I don't like my hair when it's washed - it's fine and limp - but Coca-Cola makes it tousled, like I've gone through the Amazon or something.”
“Twant me, 'twas the Lord. I always told him, 'I trust to you. I don't know where to go or what to do, but I expect you to lead me,' and He always did.”
“At a certain point, I felt the need to submit to a higher level of religiosity to move away from my intuition and to accept an ultimate truth. I felt that in order to become a good person, I needed rules - lots of them - or else I would somehow fall apart. I am reclaiming myself. Trusting my goodness and my divine mission.”
“A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.”
“If I lived by some code, my actions would become predictable. The enemy would take advantage of this and Iâ€™d be killed. An honorable death doesnâ€™t exist. Death is death. But itâ€™s funny that survival and revenge require the same thing: no honor codes, no supposed higher principles to aspire to, no mercy”
“The only time I'm pleased with myself is when I'm exhausted and shaking from having written too much.”

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