Quotes
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Alexander Monro
"For, as the substance of the brain, like that of the other solids of our body, is nearly incompressible, the quantity of blood within the head must be the same, or very nearly the same, at all times, whether in health or disease, in life or after death." --
Source : Alexander Monro (1994). “Observations on the Structure and Functions of the Nervous System”
Alexander Monro
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“When we clean up after ourselves, we have nothing to blame. When we begin to live our lives in that way, cleaning up after ourselves, what is left is further vision and further openness, which leads to cleaning up the rest of the world.”
“The collaboration which sometimes follows is seldom based on good will: usually on desire, rage, fear, pity or longing. The modern illusion concerning painting (which post-modernism has done nothing to correct) is that the artist is the creator. Rather he is a reciever. What seems like creaton is the act of giving form to what he has recieved.”
“I never had any ambitions of being a movie star or anything like that, but you know, this is nice.”
“I guess a certain amount of temperament is expected of Chess geniuses”
“I love to make even villains people you can relate to. When you find out who did it, I think you almost like the person, which is not easy to do.”
“I think that if in your heart, you are seeking out a real puzzle, and you're not looking to frighten anybody, you're not looking to upset anybody, and you're looking to discuss a subject that you yourself went through when you were nine - you just don't remember the difficulties of one's own childhood.”
“If your educe sculpture to the flat plane of the temporal experience of the work. (...) the experience of the work is inseparable from the place in which the work resides. Apart from that condition, any experience of the work is a deception.”
“In general, any incoming administration must carefully examine ('vet') its nominees for high public office.”