#ff

The same stimuli in the world can be inducing very different experiences internally and it's probably based on a single change in a gene. What I am doing is pulling the gene forward and imaging and doing behavioural tests to understand what that difference is and how reality can be constructed so differently. ↗

— David Eagleman

#based #behavioural #change #constructed #difference

It's nice that we have all these different films. ↗

— Charlotte Gainsbourg

#films #nice #these

I've supported myself by writing since 1992, and I'm probably very nearly unemployable by now because employers are likely to be put off by the long gap. ↗

— Greg Egan

#employers #gap #i #likely #long

Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

#effort #hurt #only

The myth of fascist efficiency has deluded many people. ↗

— Henry A. Wallace

#efficiency #fascist #many #myth #people

During my life I have seen, known, and lost too much to be the prey of vain dread; and, as for the hope of immortality, I am as weary of that as I am of gods and kings. For my own sake only I write this; and herein I differ from all other writers, past and to come. ↗

— Mika Waltari

#come #differ #dread #during #gods

If you get hold of a head of hair on somebody you've never seen before, cut beautiful shapes, cut beautiful architectural angles and she walks out looking so different - I think that's masterful. ↗

— Vidal Sassoon

#architectural #beautiful #before #cut #different

Saudi Arabia has also changed. People today are connecting with each other all across the world through small gadgets and television. It's a different society. ↗

— Sultan bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud

#also #arabia #changed #connecting #different

Life itself still remains a very effective therapist. ↗

— Karen Horney

#effective #itself #remains #still #therapist

The office of presbyters is a permanent one. ↗

— Charles Hodge

#permanent