"The brain is more than an assemblage of autonomous modules, each crucial for a specific mental function. Every one of these functionally specialized areas must interact with dozens or hundreds of others, their total integration creating something like a vastly complicated orchestra with thousands of instruments, an orchestra that conducts itself, with an ever-changing score and repertoire."

-- Oliver Sacks

#Creating Quotes #Brain Quotes #Orchestra Quotes

“The idea of sovereignty current in the English speaking world of the 1760's was scarcely more than a century old. It had first emerged during the English Civil War, in the early 1640's, and had been established as a canon of Whig political thought in the Revolution of 1688.”

Source : "The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution". Book by Bernard Bailyn, 1967.
“I used to exist in a simple world of right and wrong, positive and negative. I grew out of an ordered world. Everything had its place, before I came along and belonged nowhere.”
“I never felt like there was an unconscious part of me around that woke up or that came out of the closet; there wasn't a struggle, there wasn't an attempt to suppress.”
“The thing that differs me from a lot of other people running for the President of the United States is that I focus on the problem first. Then I focus on what the solution is.”
“It is well known that, when two authors meet, they at once start talking about money-like everyone else.”
“I'm writing for my ideal reader, for somebody who's willing to take the time, who's willing to get lost in a new world, who's willing to do their part. But then I have to do my part and give them a sound and a voice that they believe in enough to keep going.”
“Sometimes we are just divided, but we still, for the most part, we have similar hopes and dreams.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Use your imagination lovingly on behalf of another.”

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