"The human mind is incredible. It can do nothing without belief, yet practically anything with it. â€”Elana's father"

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Source : Sylvia Louise Engdahl (2003). “Enchantress from the Stars”, Puffin

Sylvia Engdahl

#Father Quotes #Mind Quotes #Belief Quotes

“Man is the only animal that knows he's going to die, so we invent a heaven to keep from going crazy. Most people are hypnotized by organized religion from Childhood.”

Source : "Somebody to love?". Book by Grace Slick, 1998.
“What I saw over all that time were so many deals disappearing and producers disappearing, fewer movies getting made, and it just being a bit more difficult. Working with Joel, we were in a bit of a bubble because he was always making things that were working for the studio and that kind of thing. We were always in production on something.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“I remember when I first came around, the computer-generated stuff was pretty wicked. I was like, 'Wow!' but I feel like then for the longest time, we saw so much of it, after a while, you might as well just be watching an animated movie.”
“It is not better that all felony suspects die than that they escape. Where the suspect poses no immediate threat to the officer and no threat to others, the harm resulting from failing to apprehend him does not justify the use of deadly force to do so. It is no doubt unfortunate when a suspect who is in sight escapes, but the fact that the police arrive a little late or are a little slower afoot does not always justify killing the suspect.”
“I felt confident at 24, but I am a better driver now.”
“It's not that I'm broken, and it isn't that I bleed. But when you pulled the stars from the heavens, it got so hard to see.”

Source : Song: Blind
“The Nautilus was piercing the water with its sharp spur, after having accomplished nearly ten thousand leagues in three months and a half, a distance greater than the great circle of the earth. Where were we going now, and what was reserved for the future?”
“Don't fool yourself that you are going to have it all. You are not. Psychologically, having it all is not even a valid concept. The marvelous thing about human beings is that we are perpetually reaching for the stars. The more we have, the more we want. And for this reason, we never have it all.”

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