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“Given a choice between their worldview and the facts, it's always interesting how many people toss the facts.”

People Facts Choices Given Interesting Worldview Toss

Author:Rebecca Solnit

“By banning psychedelic research we have not only given up the study of an interesting drug or group of substances, but also abandoned one of the most promising approaches to the understanding of the human mind and consciousness.”

Mind Humans Given Understanding Interesting Consciousness Study Groups Drug Approach Research Substance Human Mind Abandoned Given Up Psychedelic

Author:Stanislav Grof

“I am totally fascinated by people and our history as I understand and continue to explore it. People have so much to give and so far to go and yet we have given and gone a great distance. It's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me.”

People Giving Asks Given Interesting Gone Distance Why Not Take Me Fascinated

Author:Nikki Giovanni

“It's an interesting job, it's a fascinating job, I can't imagine anything that would have given me more satisfaction, and not everything I did was awful, but it was just writing another story in a world that's full of stories.”

World Writing I Can Book Stories Jobs Given Interesting Imagine Satisfaction Awful Comic Fascinating Comic Book

Author:Dennis O'Neil

“Golf gives no margin: either you win or you fail. You cannot hedge; you cannot bluff; you cannot give a stop order. One chance is given you, and you hit or miss. There is nothing more rigid in life. And it is this ultra and extreme rigidity that makes golf so intensely interesting.”

Giving Order Winning Given Chance Interesting Failing Missing Golf Extremes Margins Chances Are Rigidity Ultras One Chance Bluffs

Book:The Mystery of Golf

Source: The Mystery of Golf

“It's not 'natural' to speak well, eloquently, in an interesting, articulate way. People living in groups, families, communes say little - have few verbal means. Eloquence - thinking in words - is a byproduct of solitude, deracination, a heightened painful individuality. In groups, it's more natural to sing, to dance, to pray: given, rather than invented (individual) speech.”

Source: As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Diaries 1964-1980

“Note-taking is important to me: a week's worth of reading notes (or "thoughts I had in the shower" notes) is cumulatively more interesting than anything I might be able to come up with on a single given day.”

Important Might Able Reading Given Interesting Week Notes Come Up Showers Note Taking

Author:Teju Cole

“Is it ok to sometimes be shy?Yes, of course. The point is,that being that way all the time and using it as an excuse to never be the opposite of shy,it's not good. It's not good for your life, your interactions,strenght of character and how diverse and interesting you can be. You are MORE than shy. Don't be labeled, be what you wanna be in any given moment. And DO what WORKS, not what you think you are.”

Thinking Way Sometimes Moments Character Courses Given Interesting Opposites Excuse Shy Be You Interaction Diverse Strenght

Author:Matthew Hussey

“It was the momentary yielding of a nature that had been disappointed from the dawn of its perceptions, but had not quite given up all its hopeful yearnings yet.”

Character Given Interesting Perception Dawn Hopeful Disappointed Yearning Given Up Momentary Interesting Characters

Book:LITTLE DORRIT

Source: LITTLE DORRIT

“In Paris, you couldn't really turn around without seeing the result of lovers' bad decisions. An artist given to sexual excess was almost a cliché, but no one seemed to mind. As long as you were making something good or interesting or sensational, you could have as many lovers as you wanted and ruin them all.”

Mind Long Wanted Artist Turns Given Decision Interesting Results Seeing Lovers Ruins Paris Excess Sensational Bad Decision

Book:The Paris Wife: A Novel

Source: The Paris Wife: A Novel