"If we are not using our brains' capacity for challenge it feels to me as though it atrophies like an unused muscle."

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Source : Source: bigthink.com

Philippa Perry

#Challenges Quotes #Brain Quotes #Capacity Quotes

“My sister's the type who religiously watches the fear segments of her local Eyewitness News broadcasts, retaining nothing but the headline...Everything is dangerous all of the time, and if it's not yet been pulled off the shelves, then it's certainly under investigation -- so there.”
“The reason that the invisible hand often seems invisible is that it is often not there.”

Source : "Citizen’s Book Club: Would Adam Smith Vote Obama?" by Lex Paulson, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 5, 2012.
“When you've got a Chautauqua in your head, it's extremely hard not to inflict it on innocent people.”
“I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.”
“Here we go again. Pandering to the .3 percent of the American population that consider themselves transgender. Now I get to explain this to my 8-year-old, if I just wanted to watch a nice family show with some nice music.”
“There are many portions of economical doctrine which appear to me as scientific in form as they are consonant with facts.”
“Evil, and evil spirits, devils and devil possession, are the outgrowth of man's inadequate consciousness of God. We must avoid thinking of evil as a thing in itself-a force that works against man or, against God, if you will.”
“I think Bergman's films have eternal relevance, because they deal with the difficulty of personal relationships and lack of communication between people and religious aspirations and mortality, existential themes that will be relevant a thousand years from now. When many of the things that are successful and trendy today will have been long relegated to musty-looking antiques, his stuff will still be great.”

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