"How does the water of the brain turn into the wine of consciousness?"

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Source : "Einstein's Brain and the Question of Consciousness in Defying Depression" by Tony Lobl, www.huffingtonpost.co.uk. November 20, 2012.

David Chalmers

#Wine Quotes #Water Quotes #Brain Quotes

“You give before you get.”
“The problem with legalization is we already have a dependent generation that's subsidized to oblivion. And will legal pot somehow slice another sliver of the population off of the productive world?”
“Events are not a matter of chance.”

Source : Robert St. John, Gamal Abdel Nasser (1960). “The boss: the story of Gamal Abdel Nasser”
“I loved you yesterday. I love you still. I always have and I always will.”
“Most programming languages are decidedly inferior to mathematical notation and are little used as tools of thought in ways that would be considered significant by, say, an applied mathematician.”

Source : "Notation as a Tool of Thought". Cvommunications of the ACM, 23 (8), (pp. 444 - 465), August 1980.
“Insurgents throughout Iraq continue to threaten our efforts and pose a danger to stability in the region. They fight not for their country, but rather against ours.”
“It is impossible to think of Howard Hughes without seeing the apparently bottomless gulf between what we say we want and what we do want, between what we officially admire and secretly desire, between, in the largest sense, the people we marry and the people we love. In a nation which increasingly appears to prize social virtues, Howard Hughes remains not merely antisocial but grandly, brilliantly, surpassingly, asocial. He is the last private man, the dream we no longer admit.”
“I still perform it in all my shows. I'll do it as long as I'm breathing. I'm so proud it has stood the test of time.”

Source : "Ben E King dies aged 76" by Peter Walker, www.theguardian.com. May 1, 2015.

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