"It is a misconception to think that during evolution humans sacrificed physical skill in exchange for intelligence: wielding one's body is a mental activity."

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Source : Ted Chiang (2016). “Arrival: Film tie-in”, p.38, Pan Macmillan

Ted Chiang

#Thinking Quotes #Skills Quotes #Body Quotes

“If I could have any power in the world, it would be super-metabolism. I would love to eat anything and not gain weight! That would be a great power. I would have an intravenous Guinness with me, everywhere I went! But I wouldn't want to know what my wife is thinking. It's a difficult power, yeah.”

Source : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
“Poor brain! How helplessly it dissolves when willing eyes meet and the nose warms to those old jungle scents.”
“Reading newspapers in the state of Maine is like paying somebody to tell you lies,”

Source : "LePage tells students to keep their options open" By Ben Mccanna, www.centralmaine.com. March 15, 2012.
“Our rights come from nature and God, not government.”
“I came across awful characters when I got some kind of status and came to Hollywood. Then you have directors trying to sleep with you, assuming that you will do things because of the way you dress.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Love is the soul's light, the taste of morning, no me, no we, no claim of being.”
“I publish a piece in order to kill it, so that I won't have to fool around with it any longer.”

Source : William H. Gass, Theodore G. Ammon (2003). “Conversations with William H. Gass”, p.34, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“Rant would tell people: 'You're a different human being to everybody you meet.”

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