"The sordid meal of the Cynics contributed neither to their tranquillity nor to their modesty. Pride went with Diogenes into his tub; and there he had the presumption to command Alexander the haughtiest of all men."

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Source : Henry Home (lord Kames.) (1818). “Introduction to the art of thinking, to which is prefixed an original life of the author”, p.80

Henry Home, Lord Kames

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“We take our children everywhere we go. I don't believe in having them and then leaving them to someone else to bring up”
“Wishin' was dyin' but I gotta make it all this way to that bed on these feet.”

Source : John Berryman (2014). “The Dream Songs: Poems”, p.44, Macmillan
“I was 7 years old when the '80s began and 17 years old when they ended, so it was an incredibly formative decade for me.”
“I've always admitted that I'm ruled by my passions.”
“Obstacles aren't there to stop you. They are put there to show you how powerful you can feel when you run right over them.”
“17th century philosophers were not in a position to understand the mind as well as we can today, since the advent of experimental methods in psychology. It shows no disrespect for the brilliance of Descartes or Kant to acknowledge that the psychology which they worked with was primitive by comparison with what is available today in the cognitive sciences, any more than it shows disrespect for the brilliance of Aristotle to acknowledge that the physics he worked with does not compare with that of Newton or Einstein.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“Creativity is much better when it's free. Someone can take it and sell it if that's what it needs, and from that standpoint, you have to have a label. If you could make your music and just give it away and somehow make a living - that would be the best scenario.”
“But I think Hillary Clinton is one of the most amazing women of this time.”

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