"Revelation may not need the help of reason, but man does, even when in possession of revelation. Reason may be described as the candle in the man's hand, to which revelation brings the necessary flame."

-- William Gilmore Simms

#Men Quotes #Flames Quotes #Hands Quotes

“A man's character never changes radically from youth to old age. What happens is that circumstances bring out characteristics which have not been obvious to the superficial observer.”
“Why are we proud? We are proud, first of all, because from the beginning of this Nation, a man can walk upright, no matter who he is, or who she is. He can walk upright and meet his friend--or his enemy; and he does not fear that because that enemy may be in a position of great power that he can be suddenly thrown in jail to rot there without charges and with no recourse to justice. We have the habeas corpus act, and we respect it.”
“...foreign policy is a matter of costs and benefits, not theology.”

Source : Fareed Zakaria (2009). “The Post-American World: And The Rise Of The Rest”, p.304, Penguin UK
“Step outside the guidelines of the official umpires and make your own rules and your own reality.”
“memory is a storm I can't repel.”
“The emergence of a unified cognitive moment relies on the coordination of scattered mosaics of functionally specialized brain regions. Here we review the mechanisms of large-scale integration that counterbalance the distributed anatomical and functional organization of brain activity to enable the emergence of coherent behaviour and cognition. Although the mechanisms involved in large-scale integration are still largely unknown, we argue that the most plausible candidate is the formation of dynamic links mediated by synchrony over multiple frequency bands.”

Source : "The brainweb: phase synchronization and large-scale integration", Nature Rviews Vol 2, p. 229, 2001.
“The first professional play I ever saw was The Importance Of Being Earnest, and I just fell in love.”
“Dogs are dim creatures, do not speak to me of their good sense--have you ever heard of a team of tomcats hauling a sled across the frozen wastes?”

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