"Without the ability to think about yourself, to reflect on your life, thereâ€™s really no awareness, no consciousness. Consciousness doesnâ€™t come automatically; it comes through being alive, awake, curious, and often furious."

-- Maxine Greene

#Thinking Quotes #Alive Quotes #Consciousness Quotes

“A wise man from my home once told me that these mountains have seen far too much suffering and killing, and that each rock and every boulder you see represents a mujahadeen who died fighting either the Russians or the Taliban. Then the man went on to say that now that the fighting is finished, it is time to build a new era of peace-and the first step in that process is to take up the stones and start turning them into schools.”
“When primitive law has once been embodied in a Code, there is an end to what may be called its spontaneous development.”

Source : Henry Sumner Maine, Sir, J. H. Morgan (2000). “Ancient Law”, p.13, Beard Books
“Ignorance is not bliss - it is oblivion.”
“You'll see more and more perfection of that - computer as servant. But the next thing is going to be computer as a guide or agent.”
“Laughter is a highly addictive positive contagion: if somebody starts, it's very difficult to stop.”
“Samuel Spade's jaw was long and bony, his chin a jutting v under the more flexible v of his mouth. His nostrils curved back to make another, smaller, v. His yellow-grey eyes were horizontal. The V motif was picked up again by thickish brows rising outward from twin creases above a hooked nose, and his pale brown hair grew down--from high flat temples--in a point on his forehead. He looked rather pleasantly like a blond Satan.”
“I was changing a light bulb over Groucho Marx's bed, so I took my shoes off, got on his bed and changed the bulb. When I got off the bed he said: 'That's the best acting you've ever done.”
“Forget the haters! They just want the crown!”

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