"Let's not pretend that mental phenomena can be mapped on to the characteristics of billiard balls."

-- Gregory Bateson

#Balls Quotes #Characteristics Quotes

“Welcome the present moment as if you had invited it. Why? Because it is all we ever have.”
“I just want to be considered a heavy metal band, because metal has always been around and will always be around. We're just a heavier version of metal. Heavy metal will never go away. It's like a cockroach. It's the best title, because we play metal that's heavy.”

Source : Source: www.theaureview.com
“Possession of books denounced as heretical was made a criminal offense. Copies of such books were burned and destroyed. But in Upper Egypt, someone, possibly a monk from a nearby monastery of St Pachomius, took the banned books and hid them from destruction - in the jar where they remained buried for almost 1,600 years.”

Source : Elaine Pagels (2004). “The Gnostic Gospels”, p.17, Random House
“Claims like 'Slavery is wrong' are not fully common-sensical, so they must be at least partly theoretical.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“As far as spiritual influences in Christian music, I would say Crystal Lewis - a lot of her songs especially. The ministry she has through her songs has really hit me.”
“It's a marvelous feeling when someone says I want to do this song of yours because they've connected to it. That's what I'm after.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Deep in the chaotic regime, slight changes in structure almost always cause vast changes in behavior. Complex controllable behavior seems precluded.”

Source : Stuart A. Kauffman (1993). “The Origins of Order: Self Organization and Selection in Evolution”, p.232, Oxford University Press, USA
“The key to running a good marathon is to not listen to anyone's advice the last week before the race. That's when people tend to do stupid things that disrupt all the input and training of the previous months.”

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