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Michael Merzenich

"The Internet is just one of those things that contemporary humans can spend millions of 'practice' events at, that the average human a thousand years ago had absolutely no exposure to. Our brains are massively remodeled by this exposure-but so, too, by reading, by television, by video games, by modern electronics, by contemporary music, by contemporary 'tools,' etc."

Source : "Are we getting smarter or dumber?". Interview with Stefanie Olsen, www.cnet.com. September 21, 2005.

Michael Merzenich

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“The house was immaculate, as always, not a stray hair anywhere, not a flake of dandruff or a crumpled towel. Even the roses on the dining-room table held their breath. A kind of airless cleanliness that always made me want to sneeze.”
“I hated Hollywood. Itâ€™s a town without pity. Only success counts. I know of no other place in the world where so many people suffer from nervous breakdowns,Â where there are so many alcoholics, neurotics and so much unhappiness.”
“There is no stopping the world's tendency to throw off imposed restraints, the religious authority that is based on the ignorance of the many, the political authority that is based on the knowledge of the few.”
“I came to realize that we don’t raise boys to be men, we raise them not to be women.”
“I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win - if you don't, you won't.”
“Our commitment should be to leave our environment in better shape than when we found it, our nation's fiscal house in better order, our public infrastructure in better repair, and our people better educated and healthier. To indulge in immediate gratification and exploitation is an insult to previous generations, who sacrificed for us, and thievery from the next generation, who depend on our virtue.”
“My mom was in a punk rock band called The Trash Women, and they toured and all of that. She had me when she was 17.”

Source : "Who Is Kreayshawn?". Interview with Insanul Ahmed, www.complex.com. May 31, 2011.
“The foundation of reverence is this perception, that the present holds within itself the complete sum of existence, backwards and forwards, that whole amplitude of time, which is eternity.”

Source : Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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