"Contraction of theological influence has at once been the best measure, and the essential condition of intellectual advance."

-- William Edward Hartpole Lecky

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“It is what it is. But, it will be what you make it.”
“No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work.”
“True flexibility can be achieved only when all muscles are uniformly developed”

Source : Joseph H. Pilates, William John Miller (1998). “Pilates' Return to Life Through Contrology”, Presentation Dynamics Incorporated
“Too much apparatus, designed to guide us in experiments and to supplement the exactness of our senses, makes us neglect to use those senses...The more ingenious our apparatus, the coarser and more unskillful are our senses. We surround ourselves with tools and fail to use those which nature has provided every one of us.”
“Theres something in human nature that says we need to have at least one symbolic place where chaos and dark desires can live.”
“Memory must be patchy; what is more alarming is its face-savingness. Something in one shrinks from catching it out - unique to oneself, one's own, one's claim to identity, it implicates one's identity in its fibbing.”
“Danger arouses interest. Where death is involved, the vilest criminal invariably stirs a little compassion.”
“Privacy is rarely lost in one fell swoop. It is usually eroded over time, little bits dissolving almost imperceptibly until we finally begin to notice how much is gone.”

Source : Daniel J. Solove (2011). “Nothing to Hide: The False Tradeoff Between Privacy and Security”, p.30, Yale University Press

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