Iain McGilchrist Quotes
Socialism and capitalism are both essentially materialist, just different ways of approaching the lifeless world of matter and deciding how to share the spoils.
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I can enjoy anywhere, and I can leave it. Life is about moving on.
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I find myself so easily discouraged. It is pathetic how easily I can be discouraged - easily discouraged by resistance, easily discouraged by opposition, easily discouraged by hardness of heart, easily discouraged by blindness.
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You don't go out and change your gender for a television show, O.K.? It ain't happening. I don't care who you are.
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What I've learned is that people have a desire to talk after the first line of reporters go away, and they are no longer speaking out of shock.
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In any work you do, you can be profound one minute, and then you be superficial the next, and you can be smart and insightful and then insipid. There can be room for all that.
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A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
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I never felt a need to manipulate my career from the outside - try to be someone I wasn't to get ahead.
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At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.
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Racism is always there underneath, but usually it is exploited in these times of economic crisis, and it's hard to find out when one slides into another.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.
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He was a silly guy. Out - do the other guy. That was his effort at all times.
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Of course education becomes very very important and that's for our human resource development.
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I was actually a Cowboys fan.
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The best fiction stays with you and changes you.
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There's not a fortune to be made doing voiceover work unless you're one of the main voices on The Simpsons. See, there's The Simpsons, and then there's everything else.
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If you think you can slander a woman into loving you, or a man into voting for you, try it till you are satisfied.
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I would actually like to play Bobby Brown. To me, he was just the King of R&B at one point.
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I have to say that one of the most important things Scientology has given me is the ability to keep my integrity together. I understand how people can get into unethical situations, and Scientology has always helped me keep my head clear and be in present time.
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An administrator in a bureaucratic world is a man who can feel big by merging his non-entity in an abstraction. A real person in touch with real things inspires terror in him.
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While in the West, the insane are so many that they are put in an asylum, in China the insane are so unusual that we worship them, as anybody who has a knowledge of Chinese literature will testify.
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If every inhabitant of a liberal democracy believes in liberal democracy, then it doesn't matter what creed or colour they are.
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Socialism and capitalism are both essentially materialist, just different ways of approaching the lifeless world of matter and deciding how to share the spoils.
