"At the age of four with paper hats and wooden swords we're all Generals. Only some of us never grow out of it."

-- Peter Ustinov

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“[T]he shaman treats all realities as subjective, much like some modern theoretical physicists are beginning to do. In such a viewpoint the question of whether an experience is real or not makes no sense, because the answer is yes and no, depending on your point of view.”
“You know, the genders are different in how they approach things, and so I really think that women put a lot more guilt on themselves than need be.”
“Forget romantic fiction, a survey has found that most women would rather read a good book than go shopping, have sex, or sleep.”
“I watched them carefully, as always, searching for a sign of mental weakness. But there was none. Every man was coping well with the hardship, each one of them locked into his task. But it is one thing to practice, and quite another to race. And the trouble is, you never know who, on the day, will find it within his soul to give more than he has ever given before. It takes a kind of madness to compete like that, because of the will power and the ego, and his loyalty. And while some men have it, others have yet to find it. And a coach can only use his best judgement as to who those men will be.”
“No furniture is so charming as books.”

Source : Quoted in Lady Holland, Memoir (1855)
“Only if you reach the boundary will the boundary recede before you. And if you don't, if you confine your efforts, the boundary will shrink to accommodate itself to your efforts. And you can only expand your capacities by working to the very limit.”
“If we are to know ourselves, philosophy needs to maintain an ongoing dialogue with the sciences of mind.”

Source : George Lakoff, Mark Johnson (1999). “Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and Its Challenge to Western Thought”, p.552, Basic Books
“Life is movement. The more life there is, the more flexibility there is. The more fluid you are, the more you are alive.”

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