"Rather than being a luxury, emotions are a very intelligent way of driving an organism toward certain outcomes."

-- Antonio Damasio

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“Enjoy the journey of life and not just the endgame. I'm also a great believer in treating others as you would like to be treated.”
“Cancer is messy and scary. You throw everything at it, but don't forget to throw love at it. It turns out that might be the best weapon of all.”
“I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.”

Source : Jonathan Swift (1850). “The Works of Jonathan Swift: Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers, Not Hitherto Published ; with a Memoir of the Author”, p.307
“In the United States large corporations control some members of Congress. All this does is delay the corporationâ€™s funeral at our expense.”
“I don't get cast for every job and I understand that.”
“It makes my wife mad, you know, she wants me to stay home all the time. But its what I've done all my life and I think when I quit doing it I'll probably go away pretty quick.”
“I hate to write and spend months just waiting for the film to get financed. Then when you start preparing the film and you shoot it, you've already forgotten why you wanted to make the film in the first place. I like to have some kind of coherent energy that takes you through writing, preparing, shooting.”
“Modernist discourse [...] incorporates semantic devices - such as the labeling of theism as 'religion' and naturalism as 'science' - that work to prevent a dangerous debate over fundamental assumptions from breaking out in the open.”

Source : Phillip E. Johnson (1998). “Reason in the Balance: The Case Against Naturalism in Science, Law & Education”, p.45, InterVarsity Press

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