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“It is extremely dangerous to encourage people to see themselves as exceptional, whatever the motivation.”
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“The key thing is figuring out what your issues are, and it's really never about the food. You have to be real and honest with yourself. I had to stop and look and ask myself, ‘Why do I want this? What is the real reason?’ At times it was comfort food like chocolate. I love chocolate and I realized it relaxes me, so when you acknowledge what the issue is, you can control it better.”
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“When the trust account is high, communication is easy, instant, and effective.”
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“I'd love to live nonbiologically and move about at the speed of light and be in communication with a million people at once and create works of art that are grand and sophisticated and very human at the same time so all these types of things.”
Source : "Barry Ptolemy Gets Personal". Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. April 27, 2009.
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“We've had some tough times, but we've hung in there.”
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“[My poetry is] a way of coming to grips with reality . . . a way of discovery and definition. It is a way of solving for the unknowns.”
Source : Robert Earl Hayden (1984). “Collected Prose”, p.27, University of Michigan Press
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“A man really and practically looking onwards to an immortal life, on whatever grounds, exhibits to us the human soul in an enobled attitude.”
Source : "Platonic Dialogues for English Readers, Vol. 1". Book by William Whewell, "Remarks on the Phaedo", pp. 441-2, 1859.
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“Music comes from the musician, not the instrument.”