"In the words of the late Francis Crick...You, your joys and your sorrows, your memories and your ambitions, your sense of personal identity and free will, are in fact no more than the behavior of a vast assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules. (13)"

-- Mary Roach

#Memories Quotes #Ambition Quotes #Science Quotes

“I was raised in Argentina until I was 11 and now I go back there a lot, at least twice a year. It's a country where I feel very comfortable and it represents an important period in my life.”
“Prayer is the key of perfection and of sovereign happiness; it is the efficacious means of getting rid of all vices and of acquiring all virtues; for the way to become perfect is to live in the presence of God.”

Source : Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon “A Short Method Of Prayer”, Library of Alexandria
“How can I play baseball if I'm stupid? If I was stupid I wouldn't have pitched in the World Series. I'd be playing ball in Mexico or Yugoslavia or on Pluto.”
“Its intuition that works. Just intuition.”
“When you get punched, you have to get up.You have no other choice. If you don't, you're not going to grow, you're not going to get better as a player.”
“You never know what people will choose to be offended by.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The description is not the described; I can describe the mountain, but the description is not the mountain, and if you are caught up in the description, as most people are, then you will never see the mountain”
“Whitney Houstonâ€™s cover of â€œI Will Always Love Youâ€ was constantly on my FM Walkman radio around that time. I think that made me cry because I associated it with absolutely no one.”

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