"The ultimate court of appeal is observation and experiment... not authority."

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Thomas Huxley

#Thinking Quotes #Authority Quotes #Appeals Quotes

“There are very few players who know what to do when they're not marked. So sometimes you tell a player: that attacker is very good, but don't mark him.”
“Any relationship I ever have will have to be hidden, or else it will be destroyed before it even starts.”
“Today, Jesus stands ready to hear your cry and to answer prayer for you. He is interested in every detail of your life. He knows you better than you know yourself.”
“As a guiding principle, life shrinks and life expands in direct proportion to your willingness to assume risk.”
“Every individual has the potentiality to become enlightened in the course of this life or later existences”

Source : Anagarika Brahmacari Govinda (1976). “Creative meditation and multi-dimensional consciousness”, Quest Books
“In my relations with my father, which are difficult and where I'm often met by coolness and indifference, I am constantly tempted to be cold and indifferent. Yet I know that this is a test if I could take it rightly.”
“I'm striving to make things which are the most exciting things I can make that will fit in people's homes. And in that respect, working on the wheel is economically about the only answer I know, because one can, as Leach said, make 50 pots in a day. You can make 100 pots in a day. A really good potter can make 400 pots in a day.”
“I wasn't a [gay] activist, really.”

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