"Mind severed from body, culture from planet- to lose our ground is to lose our home."

-- Anodea Judith

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“Behaviorists tell us that we tend to overweight and overreact to the most recently received information. If we do, we will find that the information that we thought was so important becomes tempered, and reduced in significance, by new and related information that follows.”

Source : "The Inefficient Stock Market - What Pays Off And Why". Book by Robert Haugen, Chapter 12, The Forces behind the Technical Payoffs to Price History, p. 121, 1999.
“All the arts are predominantly national, and therefore the Australian Film Commission should be funding us. The battle gets more and more vicious each year.”
“The people of western Missouri are, in some respects, very peculiar. We will take Jackson county where I was born for instance. In that section the people seemed to be born fighters, the instinct being inherited from a long line of ancestors.”
“A friend in need needs a friend, indeed.”

Source : Karen Scalf Linamen (2002). “Just Hand Over the Chocolate and No One Will Get Hurt”
“Three or four threads may be agitated, like telegraph wires, at the same time, and if I were to tap them all I would reveal such a mixture of innocence and duplicity, generosity and calculation, fear and courage, I cannot tell the whole truth simply because I would have to write four journals at once.”
“The rare moment is not the moment when there is something worth looking at, but the moment when we are capable of seeing.”

Source : Joseph Wood Krutch (2010). “The Desert Year”, p.48, University of Iowa Press
“Being a specialist is one thing, getting a job is another.”

Source : Stephen Leacock, (2013). “The Boy I Left Behind Me”, p.79, Read Books Ltd
“I know that if I perform at a really high level, we're going to have a better chance to win.”

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