"Our ability to perceive the world around us seems so effortless that we tend to take it for granted."

-- Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

#World Quotes #Granted Quotes #Ability Quotes

“I won't miss Grissom. It was a complete life for me that's reached its end, and it's reached it in the right way, I think. So I won't miss Grissom. And I hope that the audience won't miss him either.”
“Someone with a fresh mind, one not conditioned by upbringing and environment, would doubtless look at science and the powerful reductionism that it inspires as overwhelmingly the better mode of understanding the world, and would doubtless scorn religion as sentimental wishful thinking. Would not that same uncluttered mind also see the attempts to reconcile science and religion by disparaging the reduction of the complex to the simple as attempts guided by muddle-headed sentiment and intellectually dishonest emotion?”
“Toleration in religion was one of the great rights of man, and a man ought never to be deprived of what was his natural right.”

Source : "The Speeches of the Rt. Hon. C. J. Fox in the House of Commons. Volume IV" edited by J. Wright, (p. 192), 1815.
“A unit of documentation. There are always three or more on a given item. One is on the shelf; someone has the others. The information you need is in the others.”
“I seek the utmost pleasure and the least pain.”
“Hurry up and learn patience.”

Source : "Type A's, hurry up and learn patience! Here's how" by Jennifer Nelson, www.today.com. June 16, 2011.
“Pet names are a persistant remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated. They are a reminder, too, that one is not all things to all people.”

Source : FaceBook post by Jhumpa Lahiri from Dec 20, 2010
“If you receive empowerment, it's about bodhicitta. If you receive teachings, it's about bodhicitta. If you practice teachings, it's about bodhicitta. Everything comes down to bodhicitta. The essence of practice is about bodhicitta. When you sit down to do your practice, what you practice is bodhicitta.”

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