"I don't want to be a tree; I want to be its meaning."

-- Orhan Pamuk

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“Nor is drunkenness censured for anything so much as its intemperate and endless talk.”
“The damnable frustration of revenge. Revenge is for dreams...never for reality.”
“The consumption of petroleum should be conserved. We need to adopt some austerity measures. The people should cooperate with us.”
“What right do we have to claim, as some might, that human beings are the only inhabitants of our planet blessed with an actual ability to be "aware"? The impression of a "conscious presence" is indeed very strong with me when I look at a dog or a cat or, especially, when an ape or monkey at the zoo looks at me. I do not ask that they are "self-aware" in any strong sense (though I would guess that an element of self-awareness can be present). All I ask is that they sometimes simply feel!”

Source : "The Emperor's New Mind". Book by Roger Penrose, 1989.
“There are wholes, the behavior of which is not determined by that of their individual elements, but where the part-processes are themselves determined by the intrinsic nature of the whole. It is the hope of Gestalt theory to determine the nature of such wholes.”
“No group of people has been more unjustly maligned in the twentieth century than the Puritans. As a result, we approach the Puritans with an enormous baggage of culturally ingrained prejudice.”

Source : Leland Ryken (2010). “Worldly Saints: The Puritans As They Really Were”, p.20, Harper Collins
“Ledisi means to come here, to bring forth. Itâ€™s a Nigerian word and itâ€™s from the Yorubu culture, I believe, and my parents named me, my dad and my mom, and really my dad, and I had no choice in that. Thatâ€™s my real name and thatâ€™s what it means.”

Source : Jazz Monthly Interview, www.jazzmonthly.com.
“If you haven't felt like quitting, your dreams aren't big enough!”

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