"That our being should consist of two fundamental elements [physical and psychical] offers I suppose no greater inherent improbability than that it should rest on one only."

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Source : Charles Scott Sherrington (1950). “The Physical Basis of Mind: A Symposium”

Charles Scott Sherrington

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“Liberal and conservative have lost their meaning in America. I represent the distracted center.”
“If I don't trust [in] it, then it's worthless.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Tall oaks grow from little acorns.Testing. This is the text of an item. Testing. Origin. Testing. Quoted. Testing. Source. The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit.”
“We are all dangling in mid-process between what already happened (which is just a memory) and what might happen (which is just an idea). Now is the only time anything happens. When we are awake in our lives, we know what's happening. When we're asleep, we don't see what's right in front of us.”

Source : Sylvia Boorstein, Ph.D. (2007). “Pay Attention, for Goodness' Sake: Practicing the Perfections of the Heart--The Buddhist Path of Kindness”, p.87, Ballantine Books
“I think the problem is that fashion has become too fashionable. For years, fashion wasn't fashionable. Today fashion is so fashionable that it's almost embarrassing to say you're part of fashion. All the parodies of it. All the dreadful magazines. That has destroyed it as well, because everybody thinks fashion is attainable.”
“The magic question is, 'What for?' But art is not for anything. Art is the ultimate goal.”
“I can't really do the running on hard ground that I used to do. Instead I go swimming as often as possible.”
“The fruit of liberal education is not learning, but the capacity and desire to learn, not knowledge, but power.”

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