"Two brains are better than one. You've twice the brain capacity and you have two sets of experiences and genes to bring to any challenge."

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Source : Source: bigthink.com

Philippa Perry

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“All my career I've gone to teams on the decline. I went to Quebec when they were losing the Stastny brothers. I went to Edmonton after they lost Gretzky and Messier. I went to Anaheim when it was an expansion team. I came to Montreal after they'd won the Cup and were headed down. I was beginning to think it was me.”
“One thing in any case is certain: man is neither the oldest nor the most constant problem that has been posed for human knowledge.”
“Besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation.... Notwithstanding the military establishments in the several kingdoms of Europe, which are carried as far as the public resources will bear, the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.”
“Winning isn't everything, but it beats anything in second place.”
“I do not need someone to complete me, but if you wanted to, we could walk next to each other into whatever is coming next.”
“Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.”
“Dynamic ecstasy is absolute romanticism , absolute heroism . And here I return to my point. From my point of view, after the catastrophe which we feel and think is universal, a catastrophe resulting from an excess of useless dynamism of useless progress, of useless realism, of useless technology, after this an unattainable democracy is to be reached through the conception and realization of a new romanticism.”

Source : "Heroic Reason" by Juan Ramon Jimenez (p. 231), 1957.
“I started concentrating so hard on my vision that I lost sight.”

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