"Reading in the third millennium B.C. may therefore have been a matter of hearing the cuneiform, that is, hallucinating the speech from looking at its picture symbols, rather than visual reading of syllables in our sense."

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Source : Julian Jaynes (2000). “The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind”, p.192, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Julian Jaynes

#Reading Quotes #Cuneiform Quotes #May Quotes

“I believe if you ask any singer who was the greatest country music singer of all time, they would say 'George Jones'. He was without question and by far the BEST! I first met and worked with him when I was 13 years old; I am so very grateful that he was my friend.”
“I think that female musicians are constantly fighting an uphill battle in general. Even when I'm not writing heartbreak songs... the fact that songwriting is so difficult and music criticism has become so content driven means that sometimes critics can go for the easy descriptors rather than an in-depth analysis.”
“While the mind sees only boundaries, Love knows the secret way there.”
“Some people are so dry that you might soak them in a joke for a month and it would not get through their skins.”
“Of all the joint ventures in which we might engage, the most productive, in my view, is educational exchange. I have always had great difficulty-since the initiation of the Fulbright scholarships in 1946-in trying to find the words that would persuasively explain that educational exchange is not merely one of those nice but marginal activities in which we engage in international affairs, but rather, from the standpoint of future world peace and order, probably the most important and potentially rewarding of our foreign-policy activities.”
“I've been through a lot of struggles.”

Source : "I'll Bury the Mike!". Interview with Olivia Flores Alvarez, www.houstonpress.com. December 28, 2006.
“Always do what you're afraid to do. ... I will prove myself strong when they think I am sick. I will prove myself brave when they think I am weak.”
“A woman cannot be herself in the society of the present day, which is an exclusively masculine society, with laws framed by men and with a judicial system that judges feminine conduct from a masculine point of view.”

Source : Henrik Ibsen (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henrik Ibsen (Illustrated)”, p.6835, Delphi Classics

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