#bse

The human mind evolved always in the company of the human body, and of the animal body before it was human. The intricate connections of mind and body must exceed our imagination, as from our point of view we are peculiarly prevented from observing them. ↗

— John Desmond Bernal

#animal #before #body #company #connections

I think we have become obsessed with beauty and personally I'm really saddened by the way women mutilate their faces today in search of that. ↗

— Halle Berry

#become #faces #i #i think #mutilate

Philately is normally a boys' hobby but for some reason it was in vogue at my junior school. Between the ages of eight and ten I collected avidly. I'd pore over my Stanley Gibbons book, obsessively checking my collection's value. I always hoped I'd stumble across a really valuable one, a Penny Black or an Inverted Jenny, but it wasn't to be. ↗

— Sophie Ellis Bextor

#ages #always #avidly #between #black

I spoke bluntly about what I had seen in a little over a year as United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York. To the apparent surprise of many in the room, I observed publicly that insider trading appeared to be rampant. ↗

— Preet Bharara

#apparent #appeared #attorney #bluntly #district

Total absence of humor renders life impossible. ↗

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

#humor #impossible #life #renders #total

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear. ↗

— Mark Twain

#absence #fear #mastery #resistance

Observation is an old man's memory. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#memory #observation #old

I think so much about everything. I'm obsessive. ↗