"Self-preservation is the central aim of all life-activities."

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Source : "Nervous Ills their Cause and Cure" by Boris Sidis, (p. 20), 1922.

Boris Sidis

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“I've done so many interviews that I've gotten past the ego and the personality. I used to feel that there might be something missing, but a few years ago I realized that I was so causative over how the interview went that I was no longer concerned over the effects of the interview.”
“It is the theory of all modern civilized governments that they protect and foster the liberty of the citizen; it is the practice of all of them to limit its exercise, and sometimes very narrowly.”
“I will always come with something that's aesthetically pleasing.”
“Almost all the knowledge required to produce more food than eroding soil is available today - we just need to use that knowledge within a holistic paradigm - managing agriculture holistically, forming the policies that undergird it holistically.”
“There's nothing more important in making movies than the screenplay.”
“What would you do if your country's welfare depended on labor? When a ship is in a storm it requires one captain.”

Source : "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately, (p. 209), 2004.
“I suppose I had always been an unconscious suffragist. With my temperament and my surroundings, I could scarcely have been otherwise.”
“I'm a crybaby, which means I barricade myself in my house and scream for awhile, and when it subsides enough that I can leave, I go for a run. Tears make great fuel. Night runs, or rainy days, are best for this as you don't get as many questioning looks.”

Source : "Actor Allison McAtee: The best in everyone, being a crybaby, and practicing japa meditation". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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