"Superstitions are, for the most part, but the shadows of great truths."

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Tryon Edwards

#Shadow Quotes #Superstitions Quotes

“As a black person I am no stranger to prejudice. But the truth is that in the political world I have been far more often discriminated against because I am a woman than because I am black.”
“If we open up to our vitality and to the sense of urgency that flows within us ... we will have the pleasure of experiencing ourselves living and working in cooperation with the deepest forces of life.”
“I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences.”
“The poets of each generation seldom sing a new song. They turn to themes men always have loved, and sing them in the mode of their times.”
“If you can't measure it, you can't change it.”
“Compensatory education has been tried and it apparently has failed”

Source : Arthur Robert Jensen, Frank Miele (2002). “Intelligence, race, and genetics: conversations with Arthur R. Jensen”, Basic Books
“I feel more and more as if time did not exist at all... only various spaces interlocking according to the rules of a higher form of stereometry[the geometric measurement of solid bodies], between which the living and the dead can move back and forth as they like, and the longer I think about it the more it seems to me that we who are still alive are unreal in the eyes of the dead.”
“The ability to imagine oneself in another's place and understand the other's feelings, desires, ideas, and actions. The most obvious example, perhaps, is that of the actor or singer who genuinely feels the part he is performing.”

Source : Sam Vaknin (2014). “A to Z of Narcissism and Narcissistic Personality Disorder Encyclopedia: The Narcissism Bible”, p.261, Narcissus Publishing

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