"What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears."

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Source : Alice Walker (1990). “The Temple of My Familiar”

Alice Walker

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“I'm planning to give up worrying. I want to, but I'm worried I won't be able to.”

Source : Delia Ephron (2013). “Sister Mother Husband Dog (Etc.)”, p.69, Simon and Schuster
“I remember a conversation with my parents about who the people on the TV were, and learning they were actors and they acted out this story and just thinking that was the most fantastic notion, and that's what I want to do. And I remember understanding very clearly the difference between the fantasy and reality of that, and that making it even more exciting.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The most efficient water power in the world - women's tears.”
“The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.”
“I'm loving N.Y., and words can't even describe how happy I am to be here.”
“People are living longer than ever before, a phenomenon undoubtedly made necessary by the 30-year mortgage.”
“It has long been believed that a man who gets bald across the front of his head is a thinker while a man who gets bald on the crown of his head is a lover. It follows, certainly, that a man who gets bald all over his head thinks he's a lover.”
“Man has risen, not fallen. He can choose to develop his capacities as the highest animal and to try to rise still farther, or he can choose otherwise. The choice is his responsibility, and his alone. There is no automatism that will carry him upward without choice or effort and there is no trend solely in the right direction. Evolution has no purpose; man must supply this for himself. The means to gaining right ends involve both organic evolution and human evolution, but human choice as to what are the right ends must be based on human evolution.”

Source : George Gaylord Simpson (1967). “The Meaning of Evolution: A Study of the History of Life and of Its Significance for Man”, p.311, Yale University Press

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