"The problem is not the sentiment, it's the execution. When a company makes a mistake, the individual benefits because they've learned how NOT to do something while the institution had to pay for the mistake."

-- Lewis Schiff

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“Be deaf, be blind, be dead to gossip, and it will grow disgusted with you and select a more sensitive victim.”
“The emergence of a unified cognitive moment relies on the coordination of scattered mosaics of functionally specialized brain regions. Here we review the mechanisms of large-scale integration that counterbalance the distributed anatomical and functional organization of brain activity to enable the emergence of coherent behaviour and cognition. Although the mechanisms involved in large-scale integration are still largely unknown, we argue that the most plausible candidate is the formation of dynamic links mediated by synchrony over multiple frequency bands.”

Source : "The brainweb: phase synchronization and large-scale integration", Nature Rviews Vol 2, p. 229, 2001.
“I don't mind being artificial sometimes, because I like veiling myself. I mean, I'm not honest or sincere: I am self-centered and narcissistic. I just want to be this entity.”
“Many people live with a tormentor in their head that continuously attacks and punishes them and drains them of vital energy. It is the cause of untold misery and unhappiness, as well as of disease.”
“Never to be squandered.....the miracle of another human being.”

Source : Craig Lucas (2014). “A Prelude to a Kiss and Other Plays”, p.50, Theatre Communications Group
“Children are not a zoo of entertainingly exotic creatures, but an array of mirrors in which the human predicament leaps out at us.”
“When I am drunk I am at my best. It is the national knack of the French.”
“It's a feature of our age that if you write a work of fiction, everyone assumes that the people and events in it are disguised biography â€” but if you write your biography, it's equally assumed you're lying your head off.”

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