"The man of the future may, and even must, do things impossible in the past and acquire new motor variations not given by heredity."

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Source : G. Stanley Hall (2013). “Adolescence - Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology, Sociology, Sex, Crime, and Religion (1931)”, p.179, Read Books Ltd

G. Stanley Hall

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“Dr. Kingâ€™s policy was that nonviolence would achieve the gains for black people in the United States. His major assumption was that if you are nonviolent, if you suffer, your opponent will see your suffering and will be moved to change his heart. Thatâ€™s very good. He only made one fallacious assumption: In order for nonviolence to work, your opponent must have a conscience. The United States has none.”
“Freedom must be gained step by step, slowly. Freedom is a food which must be carefully administered when people are too hungry for it.”

Source : "I'd never leave Poland, says Walesa". The Montreal Gazette, March 16, 1981.
“We have this idea that love is supposed to last forever. But love isn't like that. It's a free-flowing energy that comes and goes when it pleases. Sometimes, it stays for life; other times it stays for a second, a day, a month or a year. So don't fear love when it comes simply because it makes you vulnerable. But don't be surprised when it leaves either. Just be glad you had the opportunity to experience it.”

Source : Neil Strauss (2011). “The Game”, p.185, Canongate Books
“Much of anyone's game is played (or should be played) in the short six-inch course between the ears.”
“Suppose Watergate had not been uncovered? I'd still be on the City Desk.”
“There's a definite connection in terms of objects at hand - dealing with objects or material at hand. Pop art was very much enamored with popular imagery, and popular imagery was of course available and at hand. And land art was also using what was at hand.”
“Moving eight miles a minute for months at a time.”
“Lives, like money, are spent. What are you buying with yours?”

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