"I should choose to be happy. You can choose; you can just throw a switch since, your whole life, it?s just in your brain anyway. It?s just your perception of it."

-- Matthew Caws

#Brain Quotes #Perception Quotes #Should Quotes

“Eating animals is not our God-given right, but being kind to them is.”
“I am the parent of teenagers, my daughters are 13 and 15, so the issue of Internet safety has been an important issue. I have been visiting middle schools to talk about some of the challenges that they face.”
“If you're not happy, if you're not Emmersonianly happy and think everything's going to get better, then you're just sort of a dark animal.”

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“The typical citizen drops down to a lower level of mental performance as soon as he enters the political field. He argues and analyzes in a way which he would readily recognize as infantile within the sphere of his real interests. He becomes primitive again.”

Source : Joseph A. Schumpeter (2013). “Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy”, p.262, Routledge
“And still it is not enough to have memories. One must be able to forget them when they are many, and one must have the great patience to wait until they come again. For it is not yet the memories themselves. Not until they have turned to blood within us, to glance, to gesture, nameless and no longer to be distinguished from ourselves - not until then can it happen that in a most rare hour the first word of a verse arises in their midst and goes forth from them.”
“I only storyboard scenes that require special effects, where it is necessary to communicate through pictures.”
“If you have to do it, then you're doing the right thing.”
“I am I because my little dog knows me.”

Source : Gertrude Stein, Ulla E. Dydo (1993). “A Stein Reader”, p.593, Northwestern University Press

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