"He was calling it an atonic seizure because, even if he didn't know why it had happened, it was important to give it a cool name."

-- Ben Aaronovitch

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“This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change.”
“The conventions of an almighty agency tapping you for greatness and signing you up and telling you this is going to be the next big thing; that has not been my career.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Generation Z, they cleaned up their own mess.”
“Since sorrow follows joy As autumn does the spring Man must transcend the joys Of earth, which sorrows bring.”
“I've had a tremendous career and I get more phone calls from people who've been on 'X Factor' asking how they get on the ships. The ships are a very lucrative job for any singer and I would advise any singer to go and work on them and try it for a while. If you are not good enough, you will not get on.”

Source : Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
“I am entitled to say, if I like, that awareness exists in all the individual creatures on the planet-worms, sea urchins, gnats, whales, subhuman primates, superprimate humans, the lot. I can say this because we do not know what we are talking about: consciousness is so much a total mystery for our own species that we cannot begin to guess about its existence in others.”

Source : Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”
“Life is too long to reject the opportunities in front of you every day.”
“Mental events such as perceivings, rememberings, decisions, and actions resist capture in the net of physical theory.”

Source : Donald Davidson (2001). “Essays on Actions and Events: Philosophical Essays”, p.207, Oxford University Press

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