Regiunea Cervicala Quotes & Sayings

Some libertarians use the example of Drachten, a town in the Netherlands, in which a dream experiment was conducted. All street signs were removed. The deregulation led to an increase in safety, confirming the antifragility of attention at work, how it is whetted by a sense of danger and responsibility. As a result, many German and Dutch towns have reduced the number of street signs. We saw a version of the Drachten effect in Chapter 2 in the discussion of the automation of planes, which produces the exact opposite effect than what is intended by making pilots lose alertness. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Truth is an acquired taste. — Orrin Woodward

I guess I could tell people about Punk Rocky and walking home from school and things like that. Maybe these are my glory days, and I'm not even realizing it because they don't involve a ball. — Stephen Chbosky

You are so ridiculous," said the lion. "Thinking that your thinking is worth thinking about. — John Joseph Adams

If you can bring some light of intelligence into your sexuality, that light will transform it. — Diana Richardson

It is better to travel than to arrive. Better, by far, to find your own way than to have someone else choose it for you -- don't you think? — Lesley Howarth

In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap, our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us. — Erica Jong

You have to be willing to be happy. Despite the mess of your life - just accept what's happened, throw away your ideals, and create a new map of happiness to follow. — Tarryn Fisher

Failure has been my best friend as a writer. It tests you, to see if you have what it takes to see it through. — Markus Zusak

The job of the travel writer is to go far and wide, to make voluminous notes, to tell the truth. — Paul Theroux

All I have besides food is grief. — Jael McHenry

Just as the slave master required the slaves to imitate the image he had of them, so women, who live in a relatively powerless position, politically and economically, feel obliged by a kind of implicit force to live up to culture's image of what is female. — Susan Griffin

American democracy is a chess-game in which pawns imagine themselves to be free individuals with wills of their own: that delusion is one of the rules of the game, without which the game could not continue. I doubt anyone, no matter how sharp and sharp-tongued, could succeed in getting across to high school students how vital an acute mind is for just keeping a grip on one's life and earnings in our mendacious politics and economics. No wonder our school system is devoutly dedicated to demoralizing and blunting such minds. — Kenny Smith