"The only art I'll ever study is stuff I can steal from."

-- David Bowie

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“Nothing influences our ability to cope with the difficulties of our existence so much as the context in which we view them; the more contexts we can choose between, the less do the difficulties appear to be inevitable and insurmountable.”
“When the brain is working to remember something, similar patterns of neurons fire as they did during the perception of the original event. These networks are linked, and each time we revisit them, they become stronger and more associated. But they need the proper retrieval cues--words, smells, images-- for them to be brought back as memories”

Source : Susannah Cahalan (2012). “Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness”, p.200, Simon and Schuster
“We have a society that wants somebody to come out of college with a degree that will make them a slave for whatever discipline they're in.”
“We are free, in the West, to choose; we have real choice to pursue our own desires; we are free to set the goals and contents of our own lives; the West is made up of individuals who are free to decide what meaning to give to their lives-in short the glory of the West is that life is an open book,[1] while under Islam, life is a closed book, everything has been decided for you: God and the Holy Law set limits on the possible agenda of your life.”

Source : Ibn Warraq (2010). “Virgins? What Virgins?: And Other Essays”
“Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness.”
“Most people think they are searching for truth when they are really searching for love”
“Godâ€™s faithfulness is stronger than our unfaithfulness and our infidelities.”
“There are problems everywhere, of course, but you can only see those certain problems when you reach a certain level. So I try to think of those problems as, "This is a sign that I'm having success, that I'm also having issues with this."”

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