"There can be no evolutionary advantage to laying down memories of childhood or perceiving the color of a rose if it doesn't affect the way you're going to move later in life."

-- Daniel Wolpert

#Memories Quotes #Moving Quotes #Color Quotes

“Jogging, I believe they call it. It seems to be an epidemic psychological illness afflicting Americans these days. A form of masochism, like the flagellantes in the Middle Ages.”

Source : David Lodge (1984). “Small world: an academic romance”, Harvill Secker
“It has always seemed to me that the social order was implicit in the very nature of things, and required nothing more from the human spirit than care in arranging the various elements; that a people could be governed without being made thralls or libertines or victims thereby; that man was born for peace and liberty, and became miserable and cruel only through the action of insidious and oppressive laws. And I believe therefore that if man be given laws which harmonize with the dictates of nature and of his heart he will cease to be unhappy and corrupt.”
“These are the stories that never, never die, that are carried like seed into a new country, are told to you and me and make in us new and lasting strengths.”
“I constantly find myself changing my mind all the time. One day, I want to do just acting and just that. One day I want to do music and just that.”
“Beyond all the other reasons not to do it, free speech assaults always backfire: they transform bigots into martyrs.”
“Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage....”
“That of all the several ways of beginning a book which are now in practice throughout the known world, I am confident my own way of doing it is the bst-- I'm sure it is the most religious-- for I begin with writing the first sentence-- and trusting to Almighty God for the second.”
“A morbid propensity that causes great suffering in domestic life is often curiously infectious to the very person for whom it creates most suffering.”

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