"There are something like 18 billion cells in the brain alone. There are no two brains alike; there are no two hands alike; there are no two human beings alike. You can take your instructions and your guidance from others, but you must find your own path."

-- Joseph Campbell

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“If youâ€™re not familiar with it, a college degree is a thing that we tell our kids to buy with money they donâ€™t have, in hopes that it will help them make money they might earn, which will give them the ability to pay back the money they spent in order to make the money theyâ€™re paying it back with.”
“Just imagine the banner headlines if a marine biologist were to discover a species of dolphin that wove large, intricately meshed fishing nets, twenty dolphin-lengths in diameter! Yet we take a spider web for granted, as a nuisance in the house rather than as one of the wonders of the world. And think of the furore if Jane Goodall returned from Gombe stream with photographs of wild chimpanzees building their own houses, well roofed and insulated, of painstakingly selected stones neatly bonded and mortared! Yet caddis larvae, who do precisely that, command only passing interest.”
“'Do you pray for the senators, Dr. Hale?' No, I look at the senators and I pray for the country.”

Source : Van Wyck Brooks 'New England Indian Summer' (1940) p. 418 n.
“And Grandmother Hall really imagines that she can raise Eleanor and her two brothers differently than these children were raised. And if she is very strict and everything is very regimented and ordered and disciplined, that they will become the perfect children who her own children did not become.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“God is a wild man...should you encounter him...hang on for dear life-or let go for dear life is a better way to say it.”
“The luxury of doing good surpasses every other personal enjoyment.”
“I know these are going to sound like school reading-list suggestions, but if you like dystopian fiction, you should check out some of the originals: Anthem, by Ayn Rand; 1984, by George Orwell; or Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley.”
“It is better to be a lender than a spender.”

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