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“It becomes harder and harder to say where the world stops and the person begins.”
Source : Andy Clark (2004). “Natural-born Cyborgs: Minds, Technologies, and the Future of Human Intelligence”, p.7, Oxford University Press, USA
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“I'll always write music. Whether I release a record, whether I let the public hear it or not, I'm always writing music.”
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“The man who inspired me most, I think, was Dr. Alfred Blalock, who was professor of surgery at Johns Hopkins. He was a rather simple man with a burning curiosity. It was through his curiosity that he made many real contributions to medical science.”
Source : "Presidential Medal of Freedom". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. April 11, 1991.
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“Anger is stupid, and stupidity will kill you more surely than your opponent's blade.”
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“Wearing your clothes or standing in the shower for over an hour, pretending that this skin is your skin, these hands your hands, these shins, these soapy flanks”
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“If I were a dictator, religion and state would be separate. I swear by my religion. I will die for it. But it is my personal affair. The state has nothing to do with it. The state would look after your secular welfare, health, communications, foreign relations, currency and so on, but not your or my religion. That is everybody's personal concern!”
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“My mind has touched the farthest horizons of mortal imagination and reaches ever outward to embrace infinity. There is no knowledge beyond my comprehension, no art or skill upon this entire planet that lies beyond the mastery of my hand. And yet, like Faust, I look in vain, I learn in vain. . . . For as long as I live, no woman will ever look on me in love.”
Source : "Phantom". Book by Susan Kay, 1990.
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“I love all sorts of music. I'm really into Damian Rice and Amos Lee.”