"Our minds thus grow in spots; and like grease spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible: we keep unaltered as much of our old knowledge, as many of our old prejudices and beliefs, as we can."

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James Truslow Adams

#Faith Quotes #Wisdom Quotes #Lying Quotes

“I'm a visual thinker, not a language-based thinker. My brain is like Google Images.”
“My favorite parts are definitely the traveling. Getting to see all the places that we've been is really amazing to me, [as well as] getting to meet all the people that we wouldn't normally meet. It's really awesome, because we really get to know their culture and see what it's like in other places in the world.”
“The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.”
“As a kid, I imagined lots of different scenarios for my life. I would be an astronaut. Maybe a cartoonist. A famous explorer or rock star. Never once did I see myself standing under the window of a house belonging to some druggie named Carbine, waiting for his yard gnome to steal his stash so I could get a cab back to a cheap motel where my friend, a neurotic, death-obsessed dwarf, was waiting for me so we could get on the road to an undefined place and a mysterious Dr. X, who would cure me of mad cow disease and stop a band of dark energy from destroying the universe.”
“The difference between western and eastern intellectuals is that the former have not been kicked in the ***** enough.”
“You can easily separate 'team guys' from 'me guys' by how they accept coaching. The guys that accept it are about winning”
“We've been wed more than a month. Since it appears you mean to stay, I might as well give you leave to call me by my christian name. It is preferable, at any rate, to 'clodpole.”
“truth ... is the first casualty of tyranny.”

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