"My plea to educators and parents is that they should give some thought to the nature of the brain of a child, for the brain is a living mechanism, not a machine. In case of breakdown, it can substitute one of its parts for the function of another. But it has its limitations. It is subject to inexorable change with the passage of time."

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Source : Wilder Penfield, Lamar Roberts (2014). “Speech and Brain Mechanisms”, p.257, Princeton University Press

Wilder Penfield

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“I never, even for a moment, doubted what theyâ€™d told me. This is why it is that adults and even parents can, unwittingly, be cruel: they cannot imagine doubtâ€™s complete absence. They have forgotten.”
“I believe that when you put a smile out there, you get a smile back.”

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“In real life there are no bad guys. Everybody just has their own perspective.”

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“There is only one way to kill capitalism - by taxes, taxes, and more taxes.”
“To experience brokenness and humiliation all you have to do is lead.”

Source : Dan B. Allender (2011). “Leading with a Limp: Take Full Advantage of Your Most Powerful Weakness”, p.70, WaterBrook
“A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating.”
“How can the strength of one man stand against Jake and an army of demons?" "He can," I countered, "if he has the power of Heaven on his side. After all, Christ was a man." "He was also the Son of God, there's a difference." "Do you think they could have crucified him if he wasn't human?" I asked. "He was flesh and blood, just like Xavier. You've been here so long you underestimate the power of humans. They're a force of nature.”
“Respect for the dignity of others includes treating them as rational creatures capable of being persuadad by rational argument, even in the face of frequent evidence to the contrary.”

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