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There was nothing stuffy about him and therefore, nothing stuffy about his writing.

 

Robert H. Jackson

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'You', the ego, live in your left brain. When we say that man is the only creature who spends 99 per cent of his time inside his own head, we mean, in fact, inside his left cerebral hemisphere. And in the basement of the left hemisphere is the library full of filing cabinets -- the stuffy room that we mistake for reality.

 

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