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Max Wertheimer

"It opposes the dogmatic application to all cases of what is adequate only for piecemeal aggregates. The question is whether an approach in piecemeal terms, through blind connections, is or is not adequate to interpret actual thought processes and the role of the past experience as well. Past experience has to be considered thoroughly, but it is ambiguous in itself; so long as it is taken in piecemeal, blind terms it is not the magic key to solve all problems."

-- Max Wertheimer

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“You get to the ninth inning and your stomach is clear up to here. But it's not because of your job. It is because you want to win so badly.”
“Wondering where Ranger was now, when I needed him. Why wasnâ€™t he here, insisting on locking me up in a safe house? Now that my hamsterâ€™s cage was clean, Iâ€™d be happy to oblige.”
“What I really want is a creative person. You can always hire a Ph.D. to take care of the details.”
“I am indebted to anyone who has ever written anything. I am indebted to the unknown carver of pictograms on a gallery of stone panels, which I encountered and stood in silence before on top of a distant odd-shaped hill in northern Kenya. For whatever reason the muses have most unexpectedly invited me to join this immense procession. I am humbled and delighted.”
“In order to deliver the emotional truth in the story, you have to include some of the literal truth.”

Source : "Theresa Breslin: bringing the past to life". Interview with Michelle Pauli, www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2010.
“As well as any bloom upon a flower I like the dust on the nettles, never lost Except to prove the sweetness of a shower.”

Source : 'Tall Nettles' (1917)
“Do the people of this land…desire to preserve those [liberties] protected by the First Amendment… If so, let them withstand all beginnings of encroachment. For the saddest epitaph which can be carved in memory of a vanquished liberty is that it was lost because its possessors failed to stretch for a saving hand while yet there was time.”
“Well, you got to remember, bin Laden killed 3,000 Americans and, in some ways, he and his ideology killed tens of thousands of his fellow Muslims, including Pakistanis. I understand that that was provocative and complicated for Pakistan, but only if you accept the idea that he was an acceptable member of Pakistani society.”

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