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Michael Pollan quote: "...forgetting is vastly underrated as a mental operation."
...forgetting is vastly underrated as a mental operation. Michael Pollan
In very truth, a wise imagination, which is the presence of the spirit of God, is the best guide that man or woman can have; for it is not the things we see the most clearly that influence us the most powerfully; undefined, yet vivid visions of something beyond, something which eye has not seen nor ear heard, have far more influence than any logical sequences whereby the same things may be demonstrated to the intellect. It is the nature of the thing, not the clearness of its outline, that... George MacDonald
Terry Prachett quote: "Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its..."
Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual. Terry Prachett
The father of Ruth van Cleve's child, she reports, is under the protection and care of the Norfolk County Correctional Authority, awaiting sentencing for what Ruth van Cleve describes several times as operating a pharmaceutical company without a license. David Foster Wallace
He wishes he had never entered the funhouse. But he has. Then he wishes he were dead. But he's not. Therefore he will construct funhouses for others and be their secret operator -- though he would rather be among the lovers for whom funhouses are designed. John Barth
George Bernard Shaw quote: "Alcohol is the anethesia by which we endure the operation of..."
Alcohol is the anethesia by which we endure the operation of life. George Bernard Shaw
The images of Myth are reflections of Spiritual and Depth potentialities of every one of us. Through contemplating those we evoke those powers in our own lives to operate through ourselves. Joseph Campbell
Magic is not, and never has been a substitute for science, but is rather a constructive activity with a specific social function, and one that is still operative. [...] The aim of magical objects and magical rites is to arouse emotion in the group and to make such aroused emotions effective agents. Herbert Read
The rights hereby asserted are of the natural rights of mankind, and that if any act shall be hereafter passed to repeal the present or to narrow its operation, such act will be an infringement of natural right. Thomas Jefferson
[M]an's power, and its way of operation, [is] muchwhat the same in the material and intellectual world. For the materials in both being such as he has no power over, either to make or destroy, all that man can do, is either to unite them together, or to set them by one another, or wholly separate them. John Locke
Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain, and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible, or is conversant about terrible objects, or operates in a manner analogous to terror, is a source of the sublime; that is, it is productive of the strongest emotion which the mind is capable of feeling .... When danger or pain press too nearly, they are incapable of giving any delight, and [yet] with certain modifications, they may be, and they are delightful, as we every... Edmund Burke
Frank Herbert quote: "Show me a completely smooth operation and I'll show you..."
Show me a completely smooth operation and I'll show you someone who's covering mistakes. Real boats rock. Frank Herbert
H. Allen Smith quote: "Personally, I never admired communists because they operate on..."
Personally, I never admired communists because they operate on the theory that human beings are nice people. H. Allen Smith
An old market had stood there until I'd been about six years old, when the authorities had renamed it the Olde Market, destroyed it, and built a new market devoted to selling T-shirts and other objects with pictures of the old market. Meanwhile, the people who had operated the little stalls in the old market had gone elsewhere and set up a thing on the edge of town that was now called the New Market even though it was actually the old market. Neal Stephenson
Of course the cat will growl and spit at the operator and bite him if she can. But the real question is whether he is a vet or a vivisector. C. S. Lewis

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