"Now I have demonstrated, that the convolutions of the brain are nothing but the peripheric expansion of the bundles of which it is composed; consequently the convolutions of the brain must be recognized as the parts in which the instincts, sentiments, propensities are exercised; and, in general the moral and intellectual forces."

-- Franz Joseph Gall

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“One minute you're up half a million in soybeans and the next, boom, your kids don't go to college and they've repossessed your Bentley.”
“Relax yourself from one job by doing a different one.”
“When you have a heart to serve and help others it unlocks something in you”
“Still how unenlightened and ignorant are the very nations we term civilized!”
“Books don't harm kids; they arm them.”
“A hundred years ago, the electric telegraph made possible-indeed, inevitable-the United States of America. The communications satellite will make equally inevitable a United Nations of Earth; let us hope that the transition period will not be equally bloody.”
“The defining characteristic of pessimists is that they tend to believe that bad events will last a long time, will undermine everything they do, and are their own fault. The optimists, who are confronted with the same hard knocks of this world, think about misfortune in the opposite way. They tend to believe that defeat is just a temporary setback or a challenge, that its causes are just confined to this one case.”
“I think anybody who has been abused as a kid - and I was abused as a kid, by various people - will say it's irrational because violence is irrational.”

Source : "Samantha Morton: 'I was abused for a long time and I retaliated'". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. April 24, 2009.

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