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Lydia Cabrera Quotes By John Searle

You can't *discover* that the brain is a digital computer. You can only *interpret* the brain as a digital computer. — John Searle

Lydia Cabrera Quotes By Alice McDermott

Dan Lynch was chuckling, his hand around his small glass. 'I remember Billy saying that AA was a Protestant thing when you came right down to it. Started by a bunch of Protestants. He said he didn't like the chummy way some of them were always calling Our Lord by his first name. I drove him to the first meeting and waited to take him home, 'cause Maeve didn't want him driving, and when he came out he said you could tell who the Catholics were because they'd all been bowing their heads every ten seconds while the Protestants bantered on about Jesus, Jesus Jesus.'
(And sure enough, up and down our stretch of table, heads bobbed at the name.) — Alice McDermott

Lydia Cabrera Quotes By Sherrilyn Kenyon

You I expected better of." He turned his swirling sliver gaze from Sam to Dev and Fang. "You two not so much."
-Acheron — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Lydia Cabrera Quotes By Billy Graham

The greatest fear comes when God is a stranger ... — Billy Graham

Lydia Cabrera Quotes By Fox Benwell

The sky is different here. I can count the stars we see upon my fingers. And as I sit beside my friends, I know I'll not be cast aside unseen. — Fox Benwell

Lydia Cabrera Quotes By Michelle Franklin

A six mile meteorite cannot compare with a culinary cataclysm of this magnitude. — Michelle Franklin

Lydia Cabrera Quotes By Leonard Read

I can remember the time when, if we wanted a house or housing, we relied on private enterprise. In fact, Americans built more square feet of housing per person than any other country on the face of the earth. Despite that remarkable accomplishment, more and more people are coming to believe that the only way we can have adequate housing is to use government to take the earnings from some and give these earnings, in the form of housing, to others. — Leonard Read

Lydia Cabrera Quotes By David Copperfield

The audience likes to be taken on new journeys. — David Copperfield

Lydia Cabrera Quotes By Umberto Eco

People are never so completely and enthusiastically evil as when they act out of religious conviction. — Umberto Eco

Lydia Cabrera Quotes By Alfred De Vigny

Poetry is the disease of the brain. — Alfred De Vigny

Lydia Cabrera Quotes By Boria Sax

Snakes can have dozens of young at a time, and so they are often symbols of fertility. They resemble vegetation, especially roots, in their form and often in the green and brown of their skins. The undulating form of a snake also suggests a river. A point of muscular tension passes through the body of a snake and drives the animal forward, like a moment moving along a continuum of days and years. Like time itself, a snake seems to progress while remaining still. In addition, the body of a snake also resembles those marks with a stylus, brush, or pen that make up our letters. Ornamental alphabets of the ancient Celts and others were often made up of intertwined serpents. It could even be that the tracks of a snake in sand helped to inspire the invention of the alphabet. The manner in which snakes curl up in a ball has made people associate them with the sun. — Boria Sax

Lydia Cabrera Quotes By Jim Fowler

The most powerful argument of all for saving open space is economics; in most states, tourism is the number two industry. — Jim Fowler

Lydia Cabrera Quotes By Stanley Wolpert

Few individuals significantly alter the course of history. Fewer still modify the map of the world. Hardly anyone can be credited with creating a nation-state. Mohammad Ali Jinnah did all three. — Stanley Wolpert

Lydia Cabrera Quotes By Elie Wiesel

The revolver was black and nearly new. I was afraid to even touch it, for in it lay all the whole difference between what I was and what I was going to be. — Elie Wiesel

Lydia Cabrera Quotes By Josh Billings

But why discourse Upon the Virtues of the Horse? They are too numerous to tell Save when you have a Horse to Sell. — Josh Billings