"Subjective conscious mind is an analog of what is called the real world. It is built up with a vocabulary or lexical field whose terms are all metaphors or analogs of behavior in the physical world."

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Source : Julian Jaynes (2000). “The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind”, p.65, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Julian Jaynes

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“To be a Jew is to be strong with a strength that has outlived persecutions. It is to be wise against ignorance, honest against piracy, harmless against evil, kind against cruelty”

Source : Phyllis Bottome (1998). “The Mortal Storm”, p.72, Northwestern University Press
“When you look into the eyes of an animal youve rescued, you cant help but fall in love.”
“When I'm on the road with concerts, people ask me to autograph my CDs, but more and more they come up with the cookbooks.”
“The painters have no copyright on modern art!... I believe in, and make no apologies for, photography: it is the most important graphic medium of our day. It does not have to be, indeed cannot be - compared to painting - it has different means and aims.”
“Many species reciprocate, but only humans gossip, and much of what we gossip about is the vale of other people as partners for reciprocal relationships.”
“Don't keep telling your parents they don't understand you. Believe me it's much worse when they do. There's just a chance, you know - they really might.”
“When you're just starting out in the TV business, you don't know anything at all, and you think you're doing a better job than everyone else around you, and you just sort of presume that you're not getting the credit you deserve. And then when you start to get better, the pressure is extraordinary, and then you start to second-guess everything you do, and when people start looking to you for answers, for insight and for analysis and guidance, you start to wonder if you are the right person - even when you have all the information.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca
“Politics and power is a realm of relative influence,”

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