"In the end, we self-perceiving, self-inventing, locked-in mirages are little miracles of self-reference."

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Source : Douglas R. Hofstadter (2008). “I Am a Strange Loop”, p.363, Basic Books

Douglas Hofstadter

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“A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.”
“Scholarship that is indifferent to human suffering is immoral.”

Source : Richard Lewontin, Richard Levins (2007). “Biology Under the Influence: Dialectical Essays on the Coevolution of Nature and Society”, p.369, NYU Press
“I hope that my new status will be an example of Israeli-Palestinian co-existence, I believe that the destinies of the Israeli people and the Palestinian people are inextricably linked.”

Source : "The artist as leader" by Mark Braund, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2008.
“There are plenty of alcoholics who can be magnificent when drunk: it does not make them any less alcoholic.”
“Preparation is the be-all of good trial work. Everything else - felicity of expression, improvisational brilliance - is a satellite around the sun. Thorough preparation is that sun.”
“There is no slave, after all, like a wife...Poor women, poor slaves All married women, all children and girls who live in their father's house are slaves.”
“MTV has turned more young women into ***** than poverty.”
“We stayed huddled that way until the early hours of the morning. The shootings and explosions had lasted less than an hour, but they had frightened us badly, because none of us had ever heard gunshots in the streets. They were foreign sounds to us then. The generation of Afghan children whose ears would know nothing but the sounds of bombs and gunfire was not yet born...”

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