"Mars, therefore, is not only uninhabited by intelligent beings such as Mr. Lowell postulates, but is absolutely uninhabitable."

-- Alfred Russel Wallace

#Intelligent Quotes #Mars Quotes

“I cannot switch my voice. My voice is not like an elevator going up and down.”
“When things get bad enough, then something happens to correct the course. And it's for that reason that I speak about evolution as an error-making and an error-correcting process. And if we can be ever so much better - ever so much slightly better - at error correcting than at error making, then we'll make it.”
“And yet there was something about his strength, his arrogance, his sheer size that got under my skin. He probably couldn't even spell vanilla. He was probably selfish in the sack. Probably selfish and greedy and...unsophisticated. And hung like a horse.”
“Boundaries emerge from deep within. They are connected to letting go of guilt and shame, and to changing our beliefs about what we deserve. As our thinking about this becomes clearer, so will our boundaries. Boundaries are also connected to a Higher Timing than our own. Weâ€™ll set a limit when weâ€™re ready, and not a moment before. So will others. Thereâ€™s something magical about reaching that point of becoming ready to set a limit. We know we mean what we say; others take us seriously too. Things change, not because weâ€™re controlling others, but because weâ€™ve changed.”
“What was the freedom to which the adult human being rose in the morning, if each act was held back or inspired by the overpowering ghost of a little child?”

Source : Delmore Schwartz, James Atlas (1978). “In Dreams Begin Responsibilities and Other Stories”, p.184, New Directions Publishing
“Since there is an assumption that a lot of models â€˜starve themselvesâ€™ to stay thin, I always find it both funny and shocking when people ask me if I â€˜overeatâ€™ or am â€˜fed betterâ€™ on photo shoots to help me stay a â€˜larger size.â€™ While I may be a total foodie and enjoy cooking, I simply eat when Iâ€™m hungry and finish just before Iâ€™m full.”
“Why should you feel honored for getting scraps of his time?”
“Sustained intensity equals ecstacy.”

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