"Today the function of psychiatry, psychology and psychoanalysis threatens to become the tool in the manipulation of man."

-- Erich Fromm

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“I have found that sitting in a place where you have never sat before can be inspiring.”

Source : Dodie Smith (2011). “I Capture The Castle”, p.5, Random House
“The first and great commandment is: Don't let them scare you.”

Source : 'But We Were Born Free' (1954) ch. 1
“I've always thought young.”
“For me, exploration was a personal venture. I did not go to the Arabian desert to collect plants nor to make a map; such things were incidental. At heart I knew that to write or even to talk of my travels was to tarnish the achievement. I went there to find peace in the hardship of desert travel and the company of desert peoples. I set myself a goal on these journeys, and, although the goal itself was unimportant, its attainment had to be worth every effort and sacrifice... No, it is not the goal but the way there that matters, and the harder the way the more worth while the journey.”

Source : Wilfred Thesiger (2008). “Arabian Sands”, p.236, Penguin
“The truth is, I’d give it all up to be a rock star.”
“Other sports culminate at different times of the year, but the NFL is in the fourth quarter - that's where the money is.”

Source : Source: bleacherreport.com
“One time I snuck a ball on with me and when I went to winding up, I threw one of them balls to first and one to second. I was so smooth I picked off both runners and fanned the batter without that ump or the other team even knowing it.”
“Paleontologists had long been aware of a seeming contradiction between Darwin's postulate of gradualism, confirmed by the work of population genetics, and the actual findings of paleontology. Following phyletic lines through time seemed to reveal only minimal gradual changes but no clear evidence for any change of a species into a different genus or for the gradual origin of an evolutionary novelty. Anything truly novel always seemed to appear quite abruptly in the fossil record.”

Source : Ernst Mayr (1991). “One Long Argument: Charles Darwin and the Genesis of Modern Evolutionary Thought”, p.138, Harvard University Press

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