"How have people come to be taken in by The Phenomenon of Man? We must not underestimate the size of the market for works of this kind [pseudoscience/'woo'], for philosophy-fiction. Just as compulsory primary education created a market catered for by cheap dailies and weeklies, so the spread of secondary and latterly tertiary education has created a large population of people, often with well-developed literary and scholarly tastes, who have been educated far beyond their capacity to undertake analytical thought."

-- Peter Medawar

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“This right to life, this right to liberty, and this right to pursue one's happiness is unabashedly individualistic, without in the slightest denying at the same time our thoroughly social nature. It's only that our social relations, while vital to us all, must be chosen - that is what makes the crucial difference.”

Source : "Collectivist Thinking Is Rife in the USA". www.strike-the-root.com. March 01, 2004.
“People have no tolerance. They think all bugs are bad. It's the American way. If you don't like something, kill it.”
“But most of all I was inspired by the stirring examples of all the other runners. In some pictures they would seem like tiny dots in a mosaic, but each had a separate narrative starting a few months or a lifetime earlier and finishing that day in the New York City Marathon, the race with 37,000 stories.”

Source : Mark Sutcliffe (2013). “Why I Run: The Remarkable Journey of the Ordinary Runner”, p.70, eBookIt.com
“There's something fascinating about seeing something you don't like at first but directly know you will loveâ€”in time. People are that way, all through life. You come against a personality, and it questions yours. You shy away but know there are gratifying secrets there, and the half-open door is often more exciting than the wide.”
“You know, we live in a day when we are more afraid of holiness than we are of sinfulness.”
“I donâ€™t need a certain number of friends, just a number of friends I can be certain of.”
“I really like The Vamps. Im friends with a couple of the guys from the band, so thats fun.”
“Take a trip to the forest and experience the greatness of getting on your knees and picking your own food and going home... and eating it.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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