"Most people find facts irritating. Facts interfere with their systems of denial."

-- Walter Darby Bannard

#Truth Quotes #People Quotes #Denial Quotes

“A typical neuron makes about ten thousand connections to neighboring neurons. Given the billions of neurons, this means there are as many connections in a single cubic centimeter of brain tissue as there are stars in the Milky Way galaxy.”

Source : David Eagleman (2011). “Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain”, p.6, Vintage
“The public may think I'm weird. They may think I'm crazy or anything that anyone wants to think about me. That's all fine. As long as one of the things you're not thinking about me is that I'm a pedophile. Because that's not true.”

Source : "Pee-Wee Herman creator speaks out". Interview with Stone Phillips, www.nbcnews.com. April 5, 2004.
“Never, EVER give up. Not ever. Not EVER. Ever EVER!”
“Education of both men and women is a wonderful contraceptive.”

Source : Henry W. Kendall (2013). “A Distant Light: Scientists and Public Policy”, p.233, Springer
“Now that it looks like things are headed on the right path, I'm ready to go back and play football.”

Source : "Bengals re-sign Devon Still" by Coley Harvey, abcnews.go.com. March 19, 2015.
“somebody/ anybody sing a black girl's song bring her out to know herself to know you but sing her rhythms carin/ struggle/ hard times sing her song of life she's been dead so long closed in silence so long she doesn't know the sound of her own voice her infinite beauty she's half-notes scattered without rhythm/ no tune sing her sighs sing the song of her possibilities sing a righteous gospel let her be born let her be born & handled warmly.”

Source : Ntozake Shange (2010). “For colored girls who have considered suicide/When the rainbow is enuf”, p.4, Simon and Schuster
“A man who opens a door for a woman or gives up his seat for her-even offering to carry something! Those are country manners that never go out of style.”
“Life always delivers the creative energy you need to change into the new thing you must become.”

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