"Instead of the animistic, mechanistic, or the mathematical universe, we see the genetic, organic, holistic universe."

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Source : Jan Christiaan Smuts (1941). “Greater South Africa: plans for a better world”

Jan Smuts

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“Men and boys always want to go fight. They are always looking for a reason to go to war. It is the saddest thing. They have this abiding notion that war is fun. And no history lesson will convince them differently.”
“Beliefs are the eyelids of the mind.”

Source : David Zindell (2017). “The Broken God”, p.45, HarperCollins UK
“Basically I'm the first woman [run a president campaign] - it doesn't get covered a lot because I'm in the wrong party to have done that, and worked for the wrong candidate to have been recognized to do that.”
“Your love made it all worth waiting for some like you.”
“Iâ€™m not really afraid to be my awkward self, and I know thereâ€™s lots and lots of other people just like me out there that are awkward themselves. And I think they just appreciate that Iâ€™m not afraid to say the weird things that I say and tweet the obnoxious things that I tweet. But Iâ€™ve tried being other people and myself suits me the best. I think you just be honest. I think people respond to honesty.”
“I always dreamed of being a voice in a Disney movie, and even in those dreams, I never once dreamed of being a princess. I just wanted to be a voice.”
“Before Katrina, it was a longstanding tradition in our country for political officials to wait until the last minute to warn, to take action, to evacuate. No more. With Irene, you had mass evacuations - mandatory ones - issued days ahead of time. That was the right thing to do.”

Source : "A general talks storm lessons since Katrina". Interview with Ashley Fantz, www.cnn.com. August 29, 2011.
“Writing fiction is a good way to inhabit other minds, if not other lives.”

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