Excerpts from Book that I read

Portrait after frontispiece engraving in: Volkelt, J 1900. Arthur Schopenhauer. Seine Personlichkeit, seine Lehre, sein Glaube. Stuttgart: Frommanns. Schopenhauer's writing is replete with oppositional pairs like life and death, pleasure and pain, love and hate, and his portrait has been transfigured to display this conflict between positive and negative aspects of human endeavor. - Page 39

Portrait after a photograph in: Irvine W. 1955. Apes, and Victorians. A Joint Biography of Darwin and Huxley.' London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson Motif after text in Darwin, C 1872. The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, London: John Murray

Portrait after a photograph in: Runes, D.G. 1959. Pictorial History of philosophy. New York: Philosophical Library

Portrait after frontispiece photograph in : Vygotsky, L.S. 1978 Mind in Society. The development of Higher Psychological Processes. M. Cole, V.John-Steiner, S.Scribner, and E. Souberman, eds. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press Motif after an arrangement of Vygiotsky's blocks

Portrait after a photograph in: Gregory, R.L 1981. Editorial: the Noble Prizes. Perception 10:243-244. Motif after a diagram in: Sperry, R.W.1974. Laeral specialization in the surgically separated hemisphere. In 'The Neurosciences: Third Study Program. F.O. Schmitt and F.G.Worden, eds. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press

Portrait after frontispiece photograph in: Spillmann, L., and B. Wooten, eds. 1984. Sensory Experience, Adaptation and Perception, Festscrift in Honor of Professor Ivo Kohler, Hillsdale, N.J.: Erlbaum

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“The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.” Chinese Proverbs

There is a persistent and terribly damaging myth about our economy, namely, that American economy poverty can, in principle, be eliminated -- if only there is better education, more jobs, more opportunity, and if people will just work hard, save, invest, and pull themselves up by their boot-straps. This is simply false. Our economy as it is presently structured requires substantial poverty. The present American economy requires that certain jobs have low wages: cleaning houses, caring for children, preparing fast food, picking vegetables, waiting on tables, doing heavy labor, washing dishes, washing cars, gardening, checking groceries, and so on. In order to support the lifestyles of three-quarters of our population, one quarter of our work force must be paid low wages. These are the people who make two-income families possible, because they take care of the house and the children, allow fast food outlets, restaurants, and hotels to exist, and perform other tedious unpleasant, unsafe, and physically difficult jobs that support middle', upper-middle, and upper-class life. ~ Page 421

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emil_Z%C3%A1topek . . . . Great athletes will actually visualize their success even before they compete, and psyche themselves up by convincing themselves of their own invincibility and greatness. Such athletes are denying the reality of the competition they actually face while also invoking a self-fulfilling prophecy. A classic example of combining all these approaches is that of Emile Zatopek, a famous long-distance runner who won three gold medals at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki. Zatopek first won gold in the 5,000 meter and 10,000 meter runs, the races he had actually trained for. But then he decided at the eleventh hour to compete in the marathon for the very first time in his life. His strategy was to run right alongside the British world record holder, Jim Peters, and to set a blistering pace more appropriate for the shorter races he normally ran. Once he knew that he had overtaxed Peters, Zatopek pointed out to the Englishman that he had never run this race before and casually asked whether they were running fast enough. Shortly thereafter Peters dropped out -- and all other runners behind him were psyched out as well, so Zatopek went on to win in an Olympic record time. ~ Page 252