"To be infatuated with the power of one's own intellect is an accident which seldom happens but to those who are remarkable for the want of intellectual power. Whenever Nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit."

-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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“As a teen, I had no idea what the self was. Changing skin like a chameleon came naturally to me, but the self felt like a plastic chair in an airport where I'd have to sit and wait for the next radical character to define who I'd be that season. Acting grabbed me by the gut.”

Source : "The Right to Follow Your Bliss" by Julie Carmen, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“My first priority is my children. If at any moment I put aside something that I want to do to be a better parent than that is more than okay for me.”
“Biot, who assisted Laplace in revising it [The MÃ©canique CÃ©leste] for the press, says that Laplace himself was frequently unable to recover the details in the chain of reasoning, and if satisfied that the conclusions were correct, he was content to insert the constantly recurring formula, 'Il est Ã isÃ© a voir' [it is easy to see].”
“Courses that you've had success on, all of a sudden your game turns around because you feel comfortable on your tee shots, you feel comfortable going to the greens, you know, all the reads on the putts. It's a feeling that's hard to describe, but it's certainly one that you get filled up with confidence more than anything else.”
“If we move in the direction of biblial absolutism how can we escape turning the New Testament into a Christian Torah and the gospel into a new law? Once we do that, religious fascism with all its sectarian ugliness cannot be far away. Far better a mistaken Christian (a heretic) who has somehow caught the Spirit of Christ, than an orthodox Protestant who thinks that the Spirit is mediated to him through the letter of correct theology.”
“They say it is impossible but I've overcome the odds before.”
“Academics act like they are important, but when something is academic it is meaningless. People say, 'It's academic, now let's get work done.”
“Our bread and water are of one table: the progeny of Adam are as a single soul.”

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