"Here I am: My brain is open."

-- Paul Erdos

“You are part of the world's most feared and trusted force. Engage your brain before you engage your weapon.”

Source : "Eve of Battle Speech". James Mattis' words in a message to the 1st Marine Division, The Weekly Standard, March 1, 2003.
“If time heals all wounds, and a book can hold a person's entire life, then you can speed up the process with a pulp time warp.”
“The better we feel about ourselves, the fewer times we have to knock somebody else down to feel tall.”
“The true work of art is born from the 'artist': a mysterious, enigmatic, and mystical creation. It detaches itself from him, it acquires an autonomous life, becomes a personality, an independent subject, animated with a spiritual breath, the living subject of a real existence of being.”
“As the cost of gasoline rises and our dependence on foreign oil continues to increase, the effect of sending over $100 billion each year to OPEC nations hurts every American.”
“Thousands upon thousands of persons have studied disease. Almost no one has studied health.”

Source : Adelle Davis (1970). “Let's Eat Right To Keep FIt”
“Death cancels our engagements, but it does not affect the consequences of our acts in life.”
“Mervyn Peake is a finer poet than Edgar Allan Poe, and he is therefore able to maintain his world of fantasy brilliantly through three novels. It (Gormenghast trilogy) is a very, very great work ... a classic of our age.”

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