"Even the recognition of an individual whom we see every day is only possible as the result of an abstract idea of him formed by generalization from his appearances in the past."

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Source : "Complexity and the Arrow of Time". Book by Charles H. Lineweaver, Paul C. W. Davies, and Michael Ruse, p. 243, 2013.

James G. Frazer

#Past Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Recognition Quotes

“To play billiards well is the sign of a misspent youth.”
“Let Go of Your Worries Let go of your worries and be completely clear-hearted, like the face of a mirror that contains no images. If you want a clear mirror, behold yourself and see the shameless truth, which the mirror reflects. If metal can be polished to a mirror-like finish, what polishing might the mirror of the heart require? Between the mirror and the heart is this single difference: the heart conceals secrets, while the mirror does not.”
“I was born in 1968, just eighteen months after my sister Chrisse and just one year after Dad passed the bar exam.”
“You have a lot of educating to do hip-hop wise in Europe. When you tour, when you go out there, most of the people that come see you at the venue listen to a lot of different kinds of music, not only hip-hop; they're not heads. From time to time you're going to do a little concert in front of three or four hundred people that are only hip-hop heads and they're going to understand and know all about the gimmicks and the swagger but the rest of the people are just regular European people that listen to pop [or] rock & roll.”

Source : Source: www.hiphopcanada.com
“Everybody has to have their little tooth of power. Everybody wants to be able to bite.”
“A plan is an example of what could happen, not a prediction of what will happen.”
“I had the right amount of detachment to go back and really appreciate what I had grown up with. Thereâ€™s a particular style that is very Peru that you donâ€™t see anywhere else; itâ€™s got so many different imprints. When you mix Incan minimalism with the heavy, ornate Spanish Baroque, it is very interesting.”
“There are two types of people in the business community: those who produce results and those who give you reasons why they didn't.”

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