"..various people had long had the feeling that gain through pain was nature's way"

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Source : Robert Wright (2010). “The Moral Animal: Why We Are, the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology”, p.429, Vintage

Robert Wright

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“Scientists have one thing in common with children: curiosity. To be a good scientist you must have kept this trait of childhood, and perhaps it is not easy to retain just one trait. A scientist has to be curious like a child; perhaps one can understand that there are other childish features he hasn't grown out of.”

Source : Otto Robert Frisch (1980). “What Little I Remember”, p.86, Cambridge University Press
“I'm drawn again and again to relationships between people who really, really want to connect and just can't get out of their own way to do it.”
“I remember one point seeing I had like 60-some different cell phones. I know I only use one.”
“Dancing was my sport when I was younger. So I chose that over everything. And then, I just had to keep going because it became a competitive thing. But I'm not trying to impress anyone anymore. Dancing is more like my art, now.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I remember when I was prosecutor we had truancy and curfew issues and we made a refrigerator magnet, and that was hot with parents. They loved putting it up on the wall and saying, you know, if you don't follow these rules, you could get prosecuted.”
“It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk.”
“The real truth that dare not speak itself is that no one is in control, absolutely no one. This stuff is ruled by the equations of dynamics and chaos. There may be entities seeking control, but to seek control is to take enormous aggravation upon yourself. It's like trying to control a dream.”
“Life means to have something definite to do-a mission to fulfill-and in the measure in which we avoid setting our life to something, we make it empty. Human life, by its very nature, has to be dedicated to something.”

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