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«When committees gather, each member is necessarily an actor, uncontrollably acting out the part of himself, reading the lines that identify him, asserting his identity. We are designed, coded, it seems, to place the highest priority on being individuals, and we must do this first, at whatever cost, even if it means disability for the group.»
Author: Lewis Thomas
(Physician, Writer)
| Keywords:
acting out, coded, committees, disabilities, disability, First Group, First Priority, read between the lines, The Group, uncontrollably
«We leave traces of ourselves wherever we go, on whatever we touch»
«Sometimes you get a glimpse of a semicolon coming, a few lines farther on, and it is like climbing a steep path through woods and seeing a wooden bench just at a bend in the road ahead, a place where you can expect to sit for a moment, catching your breath.»
Author: Lewis Thomas
(Physician, Writer)
| Keywords:
catching, climbing, glimpse, semicolon, semicolons, The Road Ahead
«We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.»
«It hurts the spirit, somehow, to read the word environments, when the plural means that there are so many alternatives there to be sorted through, as in a market, and voted on.»
«Human language... prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.»
«Mistakes are at the very base of human thought feeding the structure like root nodules. If we were not provided with the knack of being wrong, we could never get anything useful done.»
Author: Lewis Thomas
(Physician, Writer)
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Mistakes
| Keywords:
feeding, provided with, The Knack
«We pass the word around; we ponder how the case is put by different people, we read the poetry; we meditate over the literature; we play the music; we change our minds; we reach an understanding. Society evolves this way . . .»
«The waves were big and the wind was blowing hard.»
«They didn't even go to the hospital.»
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