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“By brain is meant, in the first instance, something more than the pink-grey jelly of the anatomist. It is, even to a scientist, the organ of imagination.”
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“Misfortune occurs or can occur to anyone, of any sort of character. The eudaimonic has more resources to avoid it (being in autonomous control of his appetites and assumptions) and more resources to deal with it if it occurs (being better able to put it in perspective and maintain his own evenness of self-mastery). Tragedy as a dramatic form is meant to foster the ethos of sophrosyne or moderation, "nothing to excess"; it nurtures a sense of distance from the dominant illusions and delusions that may infect even aristoi.”
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“In order for the brain to comprehend the heart must first listen.”
Source : David Perkins (2008). “Smart Schools: From Training Memories to Educating Minds”, p.114, Simon and Schuster
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“I always thought that "humanist" was a good word long before I understood that anyone thought it was a bad word.”
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“The problem with fame is you no longer belong to you. You lose your persona and become the object of other people's obsession.”
Source : "This much I know: Dionne Warwick" with Megan Conner, www.theguardian.com. April 21, 2012. 
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“It is common knowledge that Saudi Arabia is the most extremist of the Muslim States. It finances the infamous Madrassas (schools) that preach a litany of hate and turn out thousands of fanatical Islamic zealots. It indirectly provides the funding and its' citizens provide most of the fighters for Bin Laden's Al-Qaeda organization. It supports, financially and by other means, the Palestinian terrorists and other Muslim anti-Western groups throughout the world.”
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“Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.”
Source : Warren G. Bennis, Burt Nanus (2003). “Leaders: the strategies for taking charge”
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“Studies by Medical Corps psychiatrists of combat fatigue cases... found that fear of killing, rather than fear of being killed, was the most common cause of battle failure, and that fear of failure ran a strong second.”
Source : Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall (1954). “Men Against Fire: The Problem of Battle Command in Future War”
