"The outstanding feature of behavior is that it is often quite easy to recognize but extremely difficult or impossible to describe with precision."

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Source : "Toward Definition of Mind" edited by Jordan Ma Scher, Glencoe, Illinois: Free Press, (p. 92), 1962.

Anatol Rapoport

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“In a nation where the disbelievers sought Heaven from the idols, the Messenger of Allah [Prophet Muhammad] taught them that Heaven can be found through a simple smile.”
“As for me, I believe that if there's a God - and I am as neutral on the subject as is possible - then the most basic proof of His existence is black humor. What else explains it, that odd, reliable comfort that billows up at the worst moments, like a beautiful sunset woven out of the smoke over a bombed city.”
“Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.”

Source : Sir Thomas Malory (1936). “A Shorter Malory”
“In my job I do my best to look forward.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“I often say that research is a way of finding out what you are going to do when you can't keep on doing what you are doing now.”
“I have a profound admiration for Fellini. I met him lately and he's just fantastic. I feel very close to him even though he's very Italian. But his films could have been made in every country. When I say, I feel close to him, then also because we're both born on January 20th.”
“Don't let what other people think decide who you are.”
“He will often have to scratch his head, and bite his nails to the quick. [To succeed he will have to puzzle his brains and work hard.]”

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