"You don't have to suffer continual chaos in order to grow."

-- John C. Lilly

#Order Quotes #Suffering Quotes #Chaos Quotes

“Because Lincoln is so closely identified with what it is to be American, everyone wants to claim him, to rewrite his story to satisfy their own particular needs.”
“Negroes - Sweet and docile, Meek, humble, and kind: Beware the day - They change their mind.”

Source : Langston Hughes (2001). “The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: The poems, 1941-1950”, p.199, University of Missouri Press
“We all nurture impulses which promise freedom from the demands of others, even if that freedom means death.”
“The proposed policy [of raising the level of public service in the occupied territories] may clash with our intention to encourage emigration from both [Gaza] Strip and Judea and Samaria. Anyone who has practical ideas or proposal to encourage emigration-let him speak up. No idea or proposal is to be dismissed out of hand.”
“I was up above it. Now, I'm down in it.”
“If any student comes to me and says he wants to be useful to mankind and go into research to alleviate human suffering, I advise him to go into charity instead. Research wants real egotists who seek their own pleasure and satisfaction, but find it in solving the puzzles of nature.”

Source : Attributed to Szent-Györgyi in "The Development of Spatial Cognition" by Robert Cohen, 1985.
“Normally I'm really lucky because I can go down to my local shops and no one cares. I take the Tube and the bus so it's kind of the perfect balance.”
“Le Verrier-without leaving his study, without even looking at the sky-had found the unknown planet [Neptune] solely by mathematical calculation, and, as it were, touched it with the tip of his pen!”

Source : Camille Flammarion (1914). “Astronomy”

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