"You've got to reach towards a better language, and you're not going to make it up from scratch; you've got to reach back into the tradition. Western tradition is not as impoverished as a lot of people would like to think, but you'd have to go back before the industrial revolution; you may have to go back farther than that. Of course, the Bible has a perfectly adequate language, but it's suffered a lot of thoughtless wear."

-- Wendell Berry

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“Well there's floodin' down in Texas. All of the telephone lines are down. Well, I've been tryin' to call my baby, Lord, and I can't get a single sound.”
“I do pity unlearned gentlemen on a rainy day.”
“Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love.”
“Hayek made a quite fruitful suggestion, made contemporaneously by the psychologist Donald Hebb, that whatever kind of encounter the sensory system has with the world, a corresponding event between a particular cell in the brain and some other cell carrying the information from the outside word must result in reinforcement of the connection between those cells. These day, this is known as a Hebbian synapse, but von Hayek quite independently came upon the idea. I think the essence of his analysis still remains with us.”

Source : "Through a Computer Darkly: Group Selection and Higher Brain Function". Gerald Edelman, "Bulletin of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences", Volume 36, No. 1 (p. 25), www.jstor.org. October 1982.
“I take it, sir, that you do not approve of our new society." "Approval, sir, in my opinion, demands the attainment of perfection. And in that sense, you rather overrate the charms of your society. I'faith, for one thing, it does seem monstrous ill-dressed for any society, even a new one.”
“The drama of light exists not only in what is in the light, but also in what is left dark. If the light is everywhere, the drama is gone.”

Source : Jay Maisel (2014). “Light, Gesture, and Color”, p.2, New Riders
“Gratitude free of compassion is selfishness. It is nothing more than being happy for what has been done to benefit you.”
“I always tell the kids, You know what's great about going the extra mile? There's very little traffic.”

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