"My children, as long as you live, the shadow of the Hiss Case will brush you. In every pair of eyes that rests on you, you will see pass, like a cloud passing behind a woods in winter, the memory of your father - dissembled in friendly eyes, lurking in unfriendly eyes."

-- Whittaker Chambers

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“They're not just dreams. Not anymore, I dream more than I wake now, and, at times, I have crossed over. Can't you see? I've been there.”
“The golf ball has no sense at all, which is why it has to be given stern lectures constantly, especially during the act of putting.”
“The strongest oak of the forest is not the one that is protected from the storm and hidden from the sun. Itâ€™s the one that stands in the open where it is compelled to struggle for its existence against the winds and rains and the scorching sun.”
“Some people find an interest in making money, and though they appear to be slaving, many actually enjoy every minute of their work.”
“Have you ever played ping pong up against a wall? You get exhausted a lot quicker than playing against someone. It's the same with getting angry. If you keep getting angry on your own, all that anger will just come back to you.”
“I have no reason to sit home and write songs all day without going out and playing for the folks. And I have no reason to go play for the folks unless I'm writing new songs so they can sort of feed off one another. And I just try to do the best I can.”
“The history of science should not be an instrument to defend any kind of social or philosophic theory; it should be used only for its own purpose, to illustrate impartially the working of reason against unreason, the gradual unfolding of truth, in all its forms, whether pleasant or unpleasant, useful of useless, welcome or unwelcome.”

Source : George Sarton (1952). “Ancient Science Through the Golden Age of Greece”, p.14, Courier Corporation
“In order to understand what is meant by the word 'brain' as it is used by neuroscientists, we must bear in mind the evidence that this organ contains in some recorded form the basis of one's whole conscious life. It contains the record of all our aims and ambitions and is essential for the experience of all pleasures and pains, all loves and hates.”

Source : John Zachary Young (1987). “Philosophy and the brain”, Oxford University Press, USA

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