Implanting False Quotes & Sayings

He who puts out his hand to stop the wheel of history will have his fingers crushed. — Lech Walesa

I can't say what I'm going to wear all the time. The minute that I say that, then there's something in me that tips off and then I need to break out of that. — Pharrell Williams

Chaos needs no allies, for it dwells like a poison in every one of us. — Steven Erikson

If I'm forced to be honest, here's an account of how I left the world last week: worse, worse, better, worse, same, worse, same. Not an inventory to make one swell with pride. I don't necessarily need to make the world a better place, mind you. Today, I will live by the Hippocratic oath: first do no harm. How — Maria Semple

One of her friends who posts from the moment she wakes up until she goes to bed at night. I don't know her, but I have friends like her, friends who miss their lives as they stay glued to their phones, letting everyone know of every thought they have and every bite they eat. I wonder if this girl ever interacts much with real friends - people who are truly present in her life. She probably never enjoys a meal, because she's too busy posting pictures of it. Too busy to enjoy her friends' quips, because she's thumb-typing every word. — Terri Blackstock

A teacher or teaching is not essential for spiritual awakening, but they save time. — Eckhart Tolle

Have you ever noticed how some rooms exude a certain energy, warmth, and a harmony of spirit? If you have, then you have experienced the language of the home. A language softly spoken, and univerally understood. — Charlotte Moss

We'll try ... we'll try to stop hurting each other. We'll take
this easy. We'll go slowly. — S.C. Stephens

The man who is ... physically able to handle pig-iron and is sufficiently ... stupid to choose this for his occupation is rarely able to comprehend the science of handling pig-iron — Frederick Winslow Taylor

A statement: children who watch violent TV programmes tend to be more violent when they grow up. But did the TV cause the violence, or do violent children preferentially enjoy watching violent programmes? Very likely both are true. Commercial defenders of TV violence argue that anyone can distinguish between television and reality. But Saturday morning children's programmes now average 25 acts of violence per hour. At the very least this desensitizes young children to aggression and random cruelty. And if impressionable adults can have false memories implanted in their brains, what are we implanting in our children when we expose them to some 100,000 acts of violence before they graduate from elementary school? — Carl Sagan

According to the most outspoken and vituperative Skeptics, therapists specializing in recovered memory therapy operate in a neverland of fairy dust and mythic monsters. Woefully out of touch with modern research, engaging in "crude psychiatric analysis," guilty of oversimplification, overextension, and "incestuous opinion citing," these misguided, undertrained, and overzealous clinicians are implanting false memories in the minds of suggestible clients, making "therapeutic lifers" out of their patients and ripping families apart. This — Elizabeth F. Loftus

Uncommon extension of the fear of death. — Ambrose Bierce

Art is long and life is short. — Christopher Bram

Everyone that stands in front of the mirror receive confirmation of the image in their thoughts. — Vadim Zeland

There is at least this to be said for mind, that it can dispel mind. — Samuel Beckett

Small wonder how pitiably we love our home, cling in her skirts at night, rejoice in her wide star-seducing smile, when every star strikes us sick with the fright: do we really exist at all? — James Agee

We're all products of our environment. The key is not to fall. — Lamar Odom