"Of all the excellent teachers of college English whom I have known I have never discovered one who knew precisely what he was doing. Therein have lain their power and their charm."

-- Mary Ellen Chase

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“Bernard Herrmann was a genius, a great, great composer.”
“When you wake up and everybody says, "How do you feel, Mike?" I say, "I'm alive." As long as I'm alive I can deal with anything that's out there.”
“Mental energy from within keeps me higher, Than anything rolled and set on fire”

Source : Song: Sittin' On Chrome
“We cannot therefore say that mental acts contain a cognitive as well as a conative element.”
“Books are the basis; purity is the force; preaching is the essence; utility is the principle.”
“There are still hungry people in Ethiopia, but they are hungry because they have no money, no longer because there is no food to buy... we strongly resent the abuse of our poverty to sway the interests of the European public.”
“In any given society the authority of man over man runs in inverse proportion to the intellectual development of that society.”
“The Procrastinator has the opposite problem. He canâ€™t selectively focus his attention and might endure frequent accusations about his laziness. In truth, heâ€™s so distracted by stimuli that he canâ€™t figure out where or how to get started. Sounds, smells, sights and the random wanderings of his thoughts continually vie for his attention.”

Source : Kate Kelly, Peggy Ramundo (2006). “You Mean I'm Not Lazy, Stupid or Crazy?!: The Classic Self-Help Book for Adults with Attention Deficit Disorder”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

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