"If a brain is exercised properly, anyone can grow intelligence, at any age, and potentially by a lot. Or you can just let your brain idle - and watch it slowly, inexorably, go to seed like a sedentary body."

-- Michael Merzenich

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“An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.”
“I don't judge you for what you've done, Gin. Why are you judging me for another man's mistakes?”
“According to Adams, Jefferson proposed that he, Adams, do the writing [pf the Declaration of Independence], but that he declined, telling Jefferson he must do it. Why?" Jefferson asked, as Adams would recount. Reasons enough," Adams said. What can be your reasons?" Reason first: you are a Virginian and a Virginian ought to appear at the head of this business. Reason second: I am obnoxious, suspected and unpopular. You are very much otherwise. Reason third: You can write ten times better than I can.”
“History is the long struggle of man, by exercise of his reason, to understand his environment and to act upon it. But the modern period has broadened the struggle in a revolutionary way. Man now seeks to understand, and act on, not only his environment, but himself; and this has added, so to speak, a new dimension to reason and a new dimension to history.”

Source : Edward Hallett Carr, Robert William Davies (1986). “What is history?: the George Macaulay Trevelyan lectures delivered in the University of Cambridge January-March 1961”
“A loveless world is a dead world.”
“Things happen along the way in our path. Instead of looking at it as a wall that's being put up in front of us, look at it as as opportunity to scale new heights and to climb that wall - to see and do things you didn't think you were capable of.”
“If you look at everything straight on, there is nothing to be afraid of.”

Source : Akira Kurosawa, Bert Cardullo (2008). “Akira Kurosawa: Interviews”, p.184, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“Good fashion for me is like rock â€˜nâ€™ roll â€“ thereâ€™s always a little rebellion in it.”

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