"There is a theory that creativity arises when individuals are out of sync with their environment. To put it simply, people who fit in with their communities have insufficient motivation to risk their psyches in creating something truly new, while those who are out of sync are driven by the constant need to prove their worth."

-- Gary Taubes

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“My grandfather was a cop in Long Island. I often try to draw on things that I've heard about him.”
“What human beings seek to learn from nature is how to use it to dominate wholly both it and human beings. Nothing else counts.”
“Dying doesn't end anything - it just changes where you are”
“Responsibility is a unique concept... You may share it with others, but your portion is not diminished. You may delegate it, but it is still with you... If responsibility is rightfully yours, no evasion, or ignorance or passing the blame can shift the burden to someone else. Unless you can point your finger at the man who is responsible when something goes wrong, then you have never had anyone really responsible.”
“History is worth reading when it tells us truly what the attitude toward life was in the past.”
“Real friends were the kind where you pick up where you'd left off, whether it be a week since you'd seen each other or two years.”
“One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.”
“I'm not ashamed of any of my papers at all and I'm rather sick of snobs that tell us that they're bad papers, snobs who only read papers that no one else wants. I doubt if they read many papers at all.”

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