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For a long time, I felt instinctively irritated - sometimes repelled - by scientific friends' automatic use of the word 'mechanism' for automatic bodily processes. A machine was man-made; it was not a sentient being; a man was not a machine.


A. S. Byatt

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S. ANSKY When I first stepped into literature twenty-five years ago, I wanted to work on behalf of the oppres...
S. ANSKY A writer has a difficult fate, but a Jewish writer has an especially difficult fate. His soul is tor...
S. ANSKY All a Jew has to do is recite a few proverbs or anecdotes to consider himself an expert on 'Jewi...
S. ANSKY Jealousy is only a good thing when your jealous of me.
BREANNA S When life gives you lemons, do NOT make lemonade. Lemonade is for losers. Make orange juice instead.
NESHIALY S. Craftiness is a quality in the mind and a vice in the character.
S. DUBAY I have just about all I can take of myself.
S. BEHRMAN So? There's two of us and one of you, and whenever we feel like it, we can be three. That's love too...
S. DORA When you say "I love you", I expect you to prove it.
NESHIALY S. The essence of mathematics is not to make simple things complicated, but to make complicated things ...
S. GUDDER To succeed, your "why you do it" must be strong enough to get you out of bed early in the morning.
MICHAEL S. If we always live
in constant fear
then we might miss
the beauty of the moment
r...
S. TARR But it is the yogic path to be introspective, and to be the best person one can be.
S. IYENGAR People don't care about price, if you have a great story and proposition, they'll buy your product.
MICHAEL S. If there is shit all around me, how can I eat my ice cream?
S. BALARAM Think of playing an instrument. When first picking up a new piece of music, a musician hammers out t...
S. CICCARELLI Life travels steeper when we always LACK something and try make up with it
VIGNESH S Being free in Jesus is a luxury. If you really desire to be free in Jesus, you’re going to have to...
GODISNOW1'S ...mammalian embryos, regardless of their sex chromosome constitutions, have an inherent tendency to...
S. OHNO As hard as modern man strives to be free he is a slave chained to the past.
S. OHNO உலகம் முழுவதும் வீடுகள் இருக்கின்றன...
S. RAMAKRISHNAN வெற்றி பெற்றவனை விட தோற்றவனிடம் தான்...
S. RAMAKRISHNAN Whenever you're late, make others wonder if they can handle your success if you came on time
VIGNESH S Loneliness can either kill you or teach you depending on you being either a fighter or a survivor
VIGNESH S If God never gave me one more thing in my life, then you, right now, would be enough. You are my Day...
S. KHUBIAR Our goals are to find an easy way to find high risk (women) and to make the counseling process more ...
S. HUGHES On a superficial level, self-esteem techniques and a tough "refusal to allow others to hurt me" tact...
JUSTIN S. HOLCOMB & LINDSEY A. HOLCOMB I enjoy doing my work, and I don't want to deal with the other things. When you enjoy doing your...
A. BALASUBRAMANIAM My work is not directly about the social or political.
A. BALASUBRAMANIAM