"Language was such a profoundly new evolutionary innovation that our brains had to be completely redesigned in order to handle it."

-- Leonard Shlain

#Order Quotes #Innovation Quotes #Brain Quotes

“Ethnically, the Germans are Teutonic...being made up of Vandals, Gepidae, and Goths, all of whom emigrated - south from Sweden in about 500 BC; why they emigrated is not exactly clear, but many scholars believe it was because they saw the way Sweden was going, i.e. neutral.”

Source : "The Sanity Inspector". Book by Alan Coren, 1974.
“I still don't have all the answers. I'm more interested in what I can do next than what I did last.”
“Tis always morning somewhere.”
“The American ideal is not that we all agree with each other, or even like each other, every minute of the day. It is rather that we will respect each other's rights, especially the right to be different, and that, at the end of the day, we will understand that we are one people, one country, and one community, and that our well-being is inextricably bound up with the well-being of each and every one of our fellow citizens.”
“One thing I savor about what I do is the relationships that I've earned over the years. Becky Herbst and I have been working together for 17 years. I've seen how everything has evolved over the years, and I've seen all three of her kids being born. Because it's personal, I would have to say I'd like to see him with Elizabeth.”
“It iz comparitively eazy tew repent ov the sins that we hav committed, but tew repent ov thoze which we intend to commit, is asking tew mutch ov enny man, now days.”
“If something's hard to do, then it's not worth doing.”
“What, then, is this blue sky, which certainly does exist, and which veils from us the stars during the day?”

Source : Camille Flammarion, James Glaisher (1873). “The Atmosphere”, p.103, New York : Harper

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