"All too many consultants, when asked, 'What is 2 and 2?' respond, 'What do you have in mind?'"

-- Norman Ralph Augustine

#Mind Quotes #Euthanasia Quotes

“The mind is the enemy of intuition, according to many New Age adherents, but I don't buy that. I look at everything in terms of polarities - two ends of the same continuum. Young/old, male/female, individuality/conformity, work/play, freedom/constraint, right/left, day/night, life/death, rational/emotional, and so on.”
“Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed at.”
“Writing comes into being to retain information across time and across space. Before writing, communication is evanescent and local; sounds carry a few yards and fade to oblivion. The evanescence of the spoken word went without saying. So fleeting was speech that the rare phenomenon of the echo, a sound heard once and then again, seemed a sort of magic.”
“People always ask me, 'What is it that you regret?' And I say, 'nothing, because I could not buy what I've learned.' And I apply those things to my life I learn. And hopefully, hopefully it helps me to be a better human in the future and make better choices.”
“You should not allow yourself the luxuries of discouragement of despair. Bounce back immediately, and welcome the adversity because it produces harder thinking and harder drive to get to the objective.”
“The only good reason for swimming, so far as I can see, is to escape drowning.”

Source : Helen Cresswell (2017). “The Bagthorpe Saga: Ordinary Jack (Collins Modern Classics)”, p.14, HarperCollins UK
“Stop worrying about the lousy science, and how me the money already.”
“I know when something is kind of half-baked.”

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