"Consciousness is a fascinating but elusive phenomenon: it is impossible to specify what it is, what it does, or why it evolved. Nothing worth reading has been written on it."

-- Stuart Sutherland

#Reading Quotes #Doe Quotes #Impossible Quotes

“It's funny how you can think you know someone pretty well, and then something happens or they do something that makes you understand that you didn't really know them at all.”

Source : Wendelin Van Draanen (2008). “Sammy Keyes and the Dead Giveaway”, p.3, Yearling
“I've spent twenty-eight years doing what everyone around me expected me to do...being what everyone around me has expected me to be. And it's horrid to be someone else's vision of yourself.”
“How can a man be so brave and so stupid, so gentle and so cruel, so warming and so detestable -- all at the same time?”
“You seldom improve quality by cutting costs, but you can often cut costs by improving quality.”
“The problem with a life spent reading is you know too much.”
“I do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think winning is the only thing.”
“We all know the leopard can't change his stripes.”
“In a world of complete economic equality, you get and keep the affections you deserve. You can't buy love with gifts or favors, you can't hold love by raising an inadequate child, and you can't be secure in love by serving as a good scrub woman or a good provider.”

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