"Fairy tales had been her first experience of the magical universe, and more than once she had wondered why people ended up distancing themselves from that world, knowing the immense joy that childhood had brought to their lives."

-- Paulo Coelho

#Knowing Quotes #People Quotes #Joy Quotes

“The doctrine of evolution implies the passage from the most organised to the least organised, or, in other terms, from the most general to the most special. Roughly, we say that there is a gradual 'adding on' of the more and more special, a continual adding on of new organisations. But this 'adding on' is at the same time a 'keeping down'. The higher nervous arrangements evolved out of the lower keep down those lower, just as a government evolved out of a nation controls as well as directs that nation.”

Source : John Hughlings Jackson (1931). “Selected Writings of John Hughlings Jackson: Evaluation and dissolution of the nervous system. Speech. Various papers, addresses and lectures”
“Global warming is the greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud I have seen in my long life as a physicist.”
“When a child shows up for school, and is not physically and mentally ready to learn, he or she never catches up.”
“An English man does not travel to see English men.”
“Music might be defined as a system of proportions in the service of a spiritual impulse”

Source : William James McGee, George Crumb (1982). “An expanded concept of timbre and its structural significance: with a timbral analysis of George Crumb's Night of the four moons”
“You have to have confidence. You can't be someone who's so insecure that she's a basket case.”
“Think how different human societies would be if they were based on love rather than justice. But no such societies have ever existed on earth.”
“What is important is not that you have a defeat but how you react to it. There is always the possibility to transform a defeat into something else, something new, something strong. All the good stories, all the people we remember are the ones who do this, who make victories out of their failures. Because the victories teach nothing. The victories are not useful. They are often dangerous.”

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