#toms

Traditional academic science describes human beings as highly developed animals and biological thinking machines. We appear to be Newtonian objects made of atoms, molecules, cells, tissues, and organs. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

#appear #atoms #beings #biological #cells

Everyone always told me that I had the symptoms of a P.O.W. ↗

— Darrell Hammond

#everyone #had #i #me #symptoms

I called my mother up and I said, 'You know, I've been to the best doctors in the world and I've spent almost half a million dollars and they're telling me I have symptoms of a P.O.W. and all I did was grow up in your home.' ↗

— Darrell Hammond

#been #best #called #did #doctors

Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth. ↗

— Aaron Hill

#birth #consequences #customs #fixed #form

Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

#cost #crammed #easily #fairly #few

Our ports are owned by local governments who are responsible for the ports. It is the Coast Guard and Customs that provide security. The federal government will never outsource our security. ↗

— Kit Bond

#coast guard #customs #federal #federal government #government

I haven't got anything against films that are about the minutia of relationships or customs, but I love extremes. ↗

— Danny Boyle

#against #anything #customs #extremes #films

We shall never get people whose time is money to take much interest in atoms. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#get #interest #money #much #never