"The role of the human brain was to rationalize suffering."

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Source : "The Proxy Marriage" by Maile Meloy, www.newyorker.com. May 21, 2012.

Maile Meloy

#Brain Quotes #Suffering Quotes #Roles Quotes

“The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time.”
“It must be for truth's sake, and not for the sake of its usefulness to humanity, that the scientific man studies Nature. The application of science to the useful arts requires other abilities, other qualities, other tools than his; and therefore I say that the man of science who follows his studies into their practical application is false to his calling. The practical man stands ever ready to take up the work where the scientific man leaves it, and adapt it to the material wants and uses of daily life.”
“The Parish makes the constable, and when the constable is made, he governs the Parish.”

Source : John Selden, Richard Milward (1821). “Seldeniana: with a biographical preface”, p.100
“My focus is to not focus too much on one genre.”
“I'd have to say I'm most proud of my mentoring camp that I do in Dallas every year for one hundred boys from single-parent homes. I was raised by a mother who was a Sunday school teacher and a father who worked hard. Together they taught me to give back.”
“Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.”
“I'm very attracted to Indians.”
“While I liked hamsters, too, the Habitrail cage was expensive. Even I could see that the interconnecting boxes, tubes, and spheres could easily bankrupt a family and lead to addiction later in life. Because, how would you know when to stop? How could you stop? An entire city could be built with a Habitrail.”

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