"Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is."

-- Samuel Pepys

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“Unfortunately, as a society, we do not teach our children that they need to tend carefully the garden of their minds. Without structure, censorship, or discipline, our thoughts run rampant on automatic. Because we have not learned how to more carefully manage what goes on inside our brains, we remain vulnerable to not only what other people think about us, but also to advertising and/or political manipulation.”

Source : Jill Bolte Taylor (2008). “My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey”, p.151, Penguin
“We must serve consciously as caring role models, emphasizing the ethic of service, not consumption.”
“Erotic acts are instinctive; they fulfill a role in nature. The idea is familiar, but it is one that contains a paradox: there is nothing more natural than sexual desire; there is nothing less natural than the forms in which it is made manifest and satisfied.”
“I'm not a number. Dammit, I'm a man.”
“Casting an eye on the education of children, from whence I can make a judgment of my own, I observe they are instructed in religious matters before they can reason about them, and consequently that all such instruction is nothing else but filling the tender mind of a child with prejudices.”

Source : George Berkeley (1837). “Works: Account of His Life and Letters”, p.122
“The State is only one of the forms assumed by society in the course of history. Why then make no distinction between what is permanent and what is accidental?”
“No memory is ever alone; it's at the end of a trail of memories, a dozen trails that each have their own associations.”
“It is this power structure which the Radical Right in the United States has been attacking for years in the belief that they are attacking the Communists.”

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