people in great trouble don't change to other people. They only change to themselves. - May Sinclair

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Animals can adapt to problems and make inventions, but often no faster than natural selection can do its work - the world acts as its own simulator in the case of natural selection.

May Sinclair

people in great trouble don't change to other people. They only change to themselves.

Change, Don'T Change, People, Trouble

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For with him the phantoms of the mind (which to the average man are merely phantoms) projected themselves with a bodily vividness and violence. Not only had they the colour and authority of accomplished fact, they were invested with an immortality denied to facts.

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At the moment you are no longer an observing, reflecting being; you have ceased to be aware of yourself; you exist only in that quiet, steady thrill that is so unlike any excitement that you have ever known.

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And I wasn't a journalist any more than I was a trained nurse.

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The War will leave none of us as it found us.

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if you don't believe in yourself, you'll have some difficulty in making other people believe in you.

Believe, Confidence, Difficulty, People

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