"Sometimes a great wound or concussion of the head, especially which happens by falling headlong from an high place, brings a prejudice and weakness to the animal faculty, dulling the understanding"

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Source : Thomas Willis (1685). “The London Practice of Physick, Or The Whole Practical Part of Physick”, p.490

Thomas Willis

#Fall Quotes #Animal Quotes #Understanding Quotes

“Everyone has the right to run his own life- even if you're heading for a crash. What I'm against is blind flying.”
“Great faith, like great strength in general, is revealed by the ease of its workings. Most of what we think we see as the struggle OF faith is really the struggle to act as IF we had faith when in fact we do not.”
“I hadn't even thought about what I wanted to do when I left school because I was only 14 when I started modelling.”

Source : "In Camera". Online Interview, showstudio.com. March 5, 2003.
“Why do we send valuable items like aluminium and food waste to landfill when we can turn them into new cans and renewable energy? Why use more resources than we need to in manufacturing? We must now work together to build a zero waste nation - where we reduce the resources we use, reuse and recycle all that we can and only landfill things that have absolutely no other use”
“Does this boat go to Europe, France?”
“They want me to give another concert but I have no desire to do so. You cannot imagine what a torture the three days before a public appearance are to me.”
“Ceremony is an invention to take off the uneasy feeling which we derive from knowing ourselves to be less the object of love and esteem with a fellow-creature than some other person is. It endeavours to make up, by superior attentions in little points, for that invidious preference which it is forced to deny in the greater.”
“For David Parker and Daniel Parker, with the respect and admiration of their father, who grew up with them.”

Source : Robert B. Parker (2009). “Early Autumn”, p.4, Dell

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