"Human inventiveness is overwhelming human adaptiveness. Our ability to judge lags behind our ability to create."

-- Robert E. Ornstein

#Judging Quotes #Lag Quotes #Resistance Quotes

“I still recall the day when I became known not just as Gay Brewer, but 'Gay Brewer, winner of the 1967 Masters.' The reality of the title â€“ the biggest thrill I've had in golf â€“ is something that can never be taken away.”
“When you know you know nothing, an air of openness and humility prevails.Â Then real understanding enters the mind.”
“I'm very perverse. If someone tells me I have to read a book, I'm instantly disinclined to do so.”
“From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death,”
“Physically it's kind of lassitude, the apathy and tiredness that precedes the flu or some other illness, or death. My legs ache and feel heavy, my skin has become more sensitive to cold and to heat, to the hardness or rigidity of things. Nothing interests me, I feel uncomfortable being still but would feel even more uncomfortable if I moved. I don't know whether speaking is painful or just boring. I sit here, staring straight ahead, with no desires, no needs, hollow. I'm not even sad. I feel only passivity and indifference.”
“Erotic acts are instinctive; they fulfill a role in nature. The idea is familiar, but it is one that contains a paradox: there is nothing more natural than sexual desire; there is nothing less natural than the forms in which it is made manifest and satisfied.”
“I never lost my belief, in the midst of setbacks which were not spared me during my period of struggle. Providence has had the last word and brought me success.”
“It is a very real concern and my view is that everything changed on September 11th and the procedure, the policies that were in place prior to September 11th no longer should apply.”

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