"Intellectual work is an act of creation. It is as if the mental image that is studied over a period of time were to sprout appendages like an amebaâ€”outgrowths that extend in all directions while avoiding one obstacle after anotherâ€”before interdigitating with related ideas."

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Source : Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Neely Swanson, Larry W. Swanson (2004). “Advice for a Young Investigator”, p.59, MIT Press

Santiago Ramon y Cajal

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“In planning any type of offense, when a player leaves a spot always replace him with another offensive player.”
“When we're in our true being, the purpose of life is to feel that every moment is the purpose.”
“Picked up the yoga, put down the soda. My healthy mind...that's what's gon' help me over. Life of a stoner (if you still concerned), I never lose, I only win or learn; It's all about your state of mind.”

Source : Song: State Of Mind, 2014
“Love is alone sufficient by itself, it pleases by itself and for it's own sake. It is itself a merit, and itself it's own recompense. It seeks neither cause, nor consequences beyond itself. It is its own fruit, its own object and usefulness. I love because I love you, I love that I may love.”
“Pennsylvania couldn't be prouder of our native son, Joe Biden from Scranton. No one knows us better than Joe.”

Source : "Transcript: Bob Casey". www.politico.com. August 26, 2008.
“May God preserve me from being rich while they are indigent, from enjoying robust health if I do not try to cure their diseases, from eating good food, clothing myself well and resting in my home if I do not share with them a piece of my bread and give them, in the measure of my abilities, part of my clothes and if I do not welcome them into my home”
“I don't like beating up people in my hometown. I like to go to their hometown, so they can see what they're all about.”
“Confucius was a humanist and an agnostic.”

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