"In the fight between biology and morality, biology has commonly won in the end."

-- Semir Zeki

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“For me it always comes down to what is a good song and I'm very old fashioned in the way that I like to make songs that have something classic about them whether you can play them with an orchestra or an electro synthesizer or an acoustic guitar.”
“If we want to set out on the aruous search for the truth, we must all summon up the courage to leave the lines along which we have thought until now and as the first step begin to doubt everything that we previously accepted as correct and true. Can we still afford to close our eyes and stop up our ears because new ideas are supposed to be heretical and absurd?”

Source : Erich von Däniken (1969). “Chariots of the Gods?: Unsolved Mysteries of the Past”
“I have friends that are much better actors than I am that had to quit the business because they couldn't survive the auditions or the rejections, or people just didn't realize how good they were.”
“A tourist is a fellow who drives thousands of miles so he can be photographed standing in front of his car.”
“For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of will, as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination.”
“I'm living in a world where there are LGBTQ straight alliances at high schools. I feel pretty psyched on that.”
“We have so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion, altruism, and love.”
“Man does not create gods, in spite of appearances. The times, the age, impose them on him. Man can serve his age or rebel against it, but the target of his cooperation or rebellion comes to him from outside.”

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