"Here is a neuron that fires when I reach and grab something, but it also fires when I watch Joe reaching and grabbing something. ... It's as though this neuron is adopting the other person's point of view."

-- Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

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“There is something frightful in being required to enjoy and appreciate all masterpieces; to read with equal relish Milton, and Dante, and Calderon, and Goethe, and Homer, and Scott, and Voltaire, and Wordsworth, and Cervantes, and Molière, and Swift.”
“Risk-taking is the essence of innovation.”
“All I want is your promise to stay with me, to be mine. Sometimes it feels like you can't possibly be real. Promise me you'll stay.â€ "Por supuesto. I promise.”
“Spend all you have for loveliness.”
“Lawyers are predators in grey worsted”
“The best we can do is focus on what we have the power to improve in ourselves, and when it comes to body-love the one you are with.”
“What opera isn't violent? Two things happen, violence and love. And other than that, name something else. You can't”
“Inspiration is a joke, real artists sit down and work”

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