"High Price: A Neuroscientist's Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society."

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Source : "High Price: A Neuroscientist's Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society". Book by Carl Hart, June 11, 2013.

Carl Hart

#Journey Quotes #Discovery Quotes #Self Quotes

“The philosopher says--I am, and the church scouts his philosophy. She answers:--No! you are NOT, you have no existence of your own. You were and are and ever will be only a part of the supreme I AM, of which the church is the emblem.”
“To fully absorb the lessons of the Internet, urge the Internet-centrists, we need to reshape our political and social institutions in its image.”
“I think I live such a boring life. But I can't imagine any other kind of life, so I guess it's the life I want.”
“On the waves of the brook she dances by, The light, the lovely dragon-fly; She dances here, she dances there, The shimmering, glimmering flutterer fair. And many a foolish young beetle's impressed By the blue gauze gown in which she is dressed; They admire the enamel that decks her bright, And her elegant waist so slim and slight...”
“When Lord Kelvin was in this country [U.S.], he said that nothing interested him so much as Mr. Hewitt's work and his vacuum lamp.”
“If the culture is so all pervasive that you canâ€™t think outside of it, how are you making genuine choices?”

Source : "Feminism: What does the F-word mean today?". Interview with Annie Lennox, www.theguardian.com. March 5, 2011.
“That kind of discipline whose pungent severity is in the manifestations of paternal love, compassion, and tenderness is the most sure of its object.”
“I grant you that the artist does not see Nature as she appears to the vulgar, because his emotion reveals to him the hidden truths beneath appearances.”

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