"If we were magically shrunk and put into someone's brain while she was thinking, we would see all the pumps, pistons, gears and levers working away and we would be able to describe the workings completely, in mechanical terms, thereby completely describing the thought processes of the brain. But that description would not contain any mention of thought! It would contain nothing but descriptions of pumps, pistons, levers!"

-- Gottfried Leibniz

#Thinking Quotes #Brain Quotes #Would Be Quotes

“Inflation is taxation without legislation.”
“A leader has to be one of two things: he either has to be a brilliant visionary himself, a truly creative strategist, in which case he can do what he likes and get away with it; or else he has to be a true empowerer who can bring out the best in others.”
“It's from love and knowledge of nature that any sensible understanding must come. Technology is essentially antagonistic to nature - that in fact is why it's created, to do something to or with nature that wasn't there before, that wasn't natural.”

Source : Source: www.counterpunch.org
“When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's [children's] minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.”
“I have been loved, Edward told the stars. So? said the stars. What difference does that make when you are all alone now?”
“That good is the enemy of great is not just a business problem. It is a human problem.”
“It is better to be lucky than good, but of course appropriate to aspire to both.”

Source : "BLACKROCK: 'Investors Should Buckle Up For More Volatility Ahead'" by Mamta Badkar, www.businessinsider.com. July 21, 2014.
“The larger picture here is that a North Korea with nuclear weapons adds to the larger proliferation risk.”

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