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“We are not evolved really very well to be able to understand or to be able to work with and grapple with technologies that we have.”
Source : Source: therumpus.net
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“The practical joke is the psychiatry of baseball.”
Source : Ron Luciano, David Fisher (1984). “Strike Two”, G K Hall & Company
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“Some lessons can't be taught, they simply have to be learned.”
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“If you want to test cosmetics, why do it on some poor animal who hasn't done anything? They should use prisoners who have been convicted of murder or rape instead. So, rather than seeing if perfume irritates a bunny rabbit's eyes, they should throw it in Charles Manson's eyes and ask him if it hurts.”
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“As to what I would like to be, it is difficult to say. An artist of some kind. If nothing else I shall always study the Arts.”
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“I used to hear a lot that all I could do was hit a serve, I couldn't volley, I can't hit a backhand, I don't return well, and then people would turn round and tell me I'm underachieving.”
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“That should be considered long which can be decided but once.”
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“Our greatest heart-treasure is a knowledge that there is in creation an individual to whom our existence is necessary - some one who is part of our life as we are part of theirs, some one in whose life we feel assured our death would leave a gap for a day or two.”
Source : Miles Franklin (2007). “My Brilliant Career”, p.297, Broadview Press
