"Ah, but is it not the mind that is the real grace of Homo sapiens? All the things to think about! All the things to read and appreciate! All the arts! All the things of the spirit!"

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Source : Carol Emshwiller (2013). “Carmen Dog”, p.92, Small Beer Press

Carol Emshwiller

#Art Quotes #Real Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.”

Source : Jules Verne (1969). “20,000 leagues under the sea”, Signet Classics
“There is a popular clichÃ© ... which says that you cannot get out of computers any more than you have put in..., that computers can only do exactly what you tell them to, and that therefore computers are never creative. This clichÃ© is true only in a crashingly trivial sense, the same sense in which Shakespeare never wrote anything except what his first schoolteacher taught him to write-words.”
“In a dynamical system, or a massively complex dynamical system such as we live in, when there is a moment of bifurcation, which is the technical mass jargon for â€œthe snapâ€, that is the only time you get to do anything about the evolution of the system. So according to this self-inflating view, we live at an especially important special moment in history where when we think something or do something it has actually an enormous effect on the future. What we do has some influence on the creation of the future more than at other times in history.”
“If wars can be started by lies, they can be stopped by truth.”
“Always dream big dreams. Big dreams attract big people.”
“I would say my haters motivate me, as clichÃ© as that may sound, but they really do. They make me realise how much of a lack of knowledge there is about my condition and people that are different. Because of their ignorance, I want to keep pushing forward and educating people.”

Source : Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
“The human condition is all about us pretending to be something sometimes that we're not. When you get into the core of people kind of stripping all of that away, that's for me, as an actor, always the most fun stuff to do.”
“And we meet, with champagne and a chicken, at last.”

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