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The rider can’t just decide to change and then order the elephant to go along with the program. Lasting change can come only by retraining the elephant, and that’s hard to do. When pop psychology programs are successful in helping people, ...more
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Mika Waltari
“For I, Sinuhe, am a human being. I have lived in everyone who existed before me and shall live in all who come after me. I shall live in human tears and laughter, in human sorrow and fear, in human goodness and wickedness, in justice and injustice, in weakness and strength. As a human being I shall live eternally in mankind. I desire no offerings at my tomb and no immortality for my name. This was written by Sinuhe, the Egyptian, who lived alone all the days of his life.”
Mika Waltari, The Egyptian

Mika Waltari
“Viinituvista ja ilotaloista kantautui kaduille Syyrian rämisevä musiikki ja yhä enemmän vieraita sanoja kuului kaduilla ja yhä julkeammin tunkeutuivat syyrialaiset ja rikkaat neekerit egyptiläisten joukkoon. Egyptin rikkaus ja mahtavuus oli ääretön eikä vihollinen vuosisatoihin ollut astunut sen kaupunkeihin, ja keski-ikään olivat jo ehtineet miehet, jotka koskaan eivät olleet kokeneet sotaa. Mutta tuottiko se enemmän iloa ihmisille, sitä en tiennyt, sillä kaikkien katse oli levoton ja kaikilla oli kiire ja kaikki odottivat jotakin uutta tyytymättä tähän päivään.”
Mika Waltari, سینوهه

Steven Pinker
“Evolution is central to the understanding of life, including human life. Like all living things, we are outcomes of natural selection; we got here because we inherited traits that allowed our ancestors to survive, find mates, and reproduce. This momentous fact explains our deepest strivings: why having a thankless child is sharper than a serpent's tooth, why it is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife, why we do not go gentle into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light”
Steven Pinker

William Shakespeare
“Tis the times' plague, when madmen lead the blind.”
William Shakespeare, King Lear

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