"The legend of the parting of the Red Sea probably refers to tidal changes in the Sea of Reeds related to the Thera eruption."

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Source : Julian Jaynes (2000). “The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind”, p.223, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Julian Jaynes

#Sea Quotes #Eruption Quotes #Legends Quotes

“Love, for too many men in our time, consists of sleeping with a seductive woman, one who is properly endowed with the right distribution of curves and conveniences and one upon whom a permanent lien has been acquired through the institution of marriage.”
“Prayers have no boundaries. They can leap miles and continents and be translated instantly into any language.”
“You teach best what you most need to learn.”
“Everybody should have a television show. Let's all get television shows!”
“Write in such a way as that you can be readily understood by both the young and the old, by men as well as women, even by children.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I spent many years working for voting rights, but we still see sophisticated efforts, led by white officials, to disenfranchise black voters in local and national elections.”
“I'm just a sucker for new-agey synth sounds and instrumentation. I wasn't really thinking of soft rock, but I know that kind of quiet-storm format uses a lot of these sounds.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“His specialty was interrogation. Imagine it, gentlemen. Being strapped to a table so that you are entirely at the mercy of a monster such as this. A person who delights in your pain. A person to whom your screams are more delicious than a lover's whisper. A creature who knows how to keep you alive while he skillfully and meticulously deconstructs those things that define you as human?”

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