"If you give up because you announce the phenomenon cannot be explained, you are missing out."

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Source : "Causal machines". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 10, 2012.

Patricia Churchland

#Giving Up Quotes #Missing Quotes #Phenomenon Quotes

“I really loved when I started doing '70s Show,' though I had never acted before, so it was a great training ground being on a sitcom.”
“The desert of virginity Aches in the hotness of her mouth.”
“You grow. You don't want to stay the same. The thing that was great for you before isn't going to be great for you now. A woman should have many faces through her life, not just one face, not just one hairdo, not just one way. You want to keep rediscovering what's fun for you.”
“There is no better ballast for keeping the mind steady on its keel, and saving it from all risk of crankiness, than business.”
“I'll accept commissions from anyone who isn't frightened by my proposals.”

Source : The AD100 Architectural Digest, v. 57 #1, p. 48, January 2000.
“I went to work for Catholics United for the Faith, and I basically found myself in the midst of the traditionalist branch of the Catholic revival. There is an intellectual rigor that is very much valued there and that I was in awe of.”
“The only magic we have is what we make in ourselves, the muscles we build up on the inside, the sense of belief we create from nothing.”

Source : Dorothy Allison (2002). “Trash”, p.107, Penguin
“You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.”

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