"The pursuit of knowledge is an intoxicant, a lure that scientists and explorers have known from ancient times; indeed, exhilaration in the pursuit of knowledge is part of what has kept our species so adaptive."

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Kay Redfield Jamison

#Knowledge Quotes #Exhilaration Quotes #Ancient Quotes

“Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.”
“I'm a proud member of the rabble.”
“As a matter of fact, I've been to Italy many times before I met my husband, which he can't even imagine that I could possibly know anything about Italian food. But, you know, Italian food's really basic, and there's so many different variations on it that what my husband did is he broke it down for me.”
“Religion is the call to confront reality; to master the self.”
“Sentiment, crystallized, grows into sentimentality. It lost all spontaneity, which was the essence of feeling. It was dated--old-fashioned.”
“The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts.”

Source : Twitter post from Jan 08, 2013
“I would love to hear someone write a song like 'He Stopped Loving Her Today' rather than 'You're hot. I'm hot. We're in a truck.' It's just mind-numbing to me.”

Source : FaceBook post by Vince Gill from May 14, 2012
“One of the biggest challenges I have with certain clients is convincing them to take a vacation - metaphorically. You're dealing with egos, and with egos the answer to everything is "more me." Sometimes the situation calls for less you.”

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