"The whole of a human being is merely a vertebra."

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Lorenz Oken

#Science Quotes #Humans Quotes

“When you believe in something, stand up for it, even if everyone is sitting.”
“I had no money. I had no savings account.So I would bring down my color TV set, a Sears TV with a cable snaked into it - they had no video-in back in those days - and hooked it up to the circuit of very few chips and then a little keyboard you could type on. And I was trying to impress people with how did he do it with fewer chips than anyone could ever imagine?”
“I think it was a good challenge for me to get my reactions across without being able to speak.”
“I'm like everyone elseâ€”I see the world in terms of what I would like to see happen, not what actually does.”
“The succession of thoughts appears in time, but the gap between two of them is outside time. The gap itself is normally unobserved. The chance of enlightenment is missed.”

Source : Paul Brunton (1988). “Advanced contemplation: The peace within you”, Larson Pubn
“Working ten times as hard will make you twice as good.”
“It is obvious enough for the reader to conclude, "She loves young Emerson." A reader in Lucy's place would not find it obvious. Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice, and we welcome "nerves" or any other shibboleth that will cloak our personal desire. She loved Cecil; George made her nervous; will the reader explain to her that the phrases should have been reversed?”
“I've been doing my job well for 17 years. People must see something in me. Otherwise, I'd be over and out.”

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