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“We cannot study the brain, the instrument for fabricating the realities we inhabit, using the mental constructs of the past.”

Reality Past Brain Study Instruments Constructs

Book:Change Your Brain

Source: Change Your Brain

“The achievements of past struggles and the aspirations of an entire nation are [being] undone and erased.... No Agent Orange or steel pellet bombs, no napalm, no toxic chemicals: a new phase of economic and social (rather than' physical) destruction has unfolded. The seemingly neutral and scientific tools of macro-economic policy constitute a non-violent instrument of recolonization and impoverishment.”

“The past is a life sentence, a blunt instrument aimed at tomorrow.”

Past Tomorrow Instruments Sentences Blunt

Book:Citizen: An American Lyric

Source: Citizen: An American Lyric

“The present is never the mark of our designs. We use both past and present as our means and instruments, but the future only as our object and aim.”

Mean Use Past Design Objects Future Mark Aim Instruments Past And Present

Book:Thoughts on Religion and Other Curious Subjects

Source: Thoughts on Religion and Other Curious Subjects

“I want to sound like an instrument. I want my voice and my words to marry the beat. I go with the rhythm of it and the words start to come to my mind and those words could be based on things that's been on my mind for the past year, the past month, the past week, whatever; I write it.”

Want Writing Years Mind Past Sound Voice Week Months Beats Instruments Rhythm

Author:Nas