"At some time in the history of the universe, there were no human minds, and at some time later, there were. Within the blink of a cosmic eye, a universe in which all was chaos and void came to include hunches, beliefs, sentiments, raw sensations, pains, emotions, wishes, ideas, images, inferences, the feel of rubber, Schadenfreude, and the taste of banana ice cream."

-- David Berlinski

#Pain Quotes #Eye Quotes #Ice Cream Quotes

“I don't think there are any pure Africans of the African Americans, but the African part of our history was pretty much taken away from us during slavery, so the 60s gave us a chance, because of the civil rights movement, to kind of re-examine and make some sort of formal connection to our African-ness.”
“There is a brilliant child locked inside every student.”

Source : Marva Collins, Civia Tamarkin (1984). “Marva Collins Way”, Tarcher
“Your desires and true beliefs have a way of playing blind man's bluff. You must corner the inner facts...”
“The soul grows by reincarnation in bodies provided by nature, more complex, more powerful, as the soul unfolds greater and greater faculties. And so the soul climbs upward into the light eternal. And there is no fear for any child of man, for inevitably he climbs towards God.”
“Some think that solar work is pretty well played out. In reality, it is only beginning.”
“Many people eat salad dutifully because they feel it is good for them, but more enlightened types eat it happily because it is good.”
“Prefer the familiar word to the far-fetched. Prefer the concrete word to the abstract. Prefer the single word to the circumlocution. Prefer the short word to the long. Prefer the Saxon word to the Romance.”

Source : Henry Watson Fowler, Francis George Fowler (1931). “The King's English”, Oxford University Press
“You can have talent and strength, but the most important is determination.”

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