"Words never mean what we want them to mean."

-- Jonathan Safran Foer

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“The doctrine of evolution implies the passage from the most organised to the least organised, or, in other terms, from the most general to the most special. Roughly, we say that there is a gradual 'adding on' of the more and more special, a continual adding on of new organisations. But this 'adding on' is at the same time a 'keeping down'. The higher nervous arrangements evolved out of the lower keep down those lower, just as a government evolved out of a nation controls as well as directs that nation.”

Source : John Hughlings Jackson (1931). “Selected Writings of John Hughlings Jackson: Evaluation and dissolution of the nervous system. Speech. Various papers, addresses and lectures”
“Best while you have it use your breath, There is no drinking after death.”
“It is grievous to read the papers in most respects, I agree. More and more I skim the headlines only, for one can be sure what is carried beneath them quite automatically, if one has long been a reader of the press journalism.”
“Some pushers are way better than others.”
“Live for this life as though you live in it forever and live for the life to come as though you die tomorrow.”
“It made me start to wonder if there were other people so lonely so close. I thought about â€œEleanor Rigby.â€ Itâ€™s true, where do they all come from? And where do they all belong?”
“I remember my first commercial. This is really great 'Degrassi' trivia: The character Toby on 'Degrassi,' played by Jake Goldsbie, he and I were in both of our first commercial ever when we were four. It was for Tiger Toys, this old Game Boy-type thing. Both of our lines were, 'Mommy, I can do it!”
“You came along and changed everything. I donâ€™t want to be some guy youâ€™re fooling around with anymore, Rylann. I want to be with you all the way.”

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