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1 " Hope is a slighter, tougher thing even than trust, he thought, pacing his room as the soundless, vague lightning flashed overhead. In a good season one trusts life; in a bad season one only hopes, But they are of the same essence: they are the mind's indispensable relationship with other minds, with the world, and with time. Without trust, a man lives, but not a human life; without hope, he dies. When there is no relationship, where hands do not touch, emotion atrophies in void and intelligence goes sterile and obsessed. Between men the only link left is that of owner to slave, or murderer to victim. "
― Ursula K. Le Guin , City of Illusions (Hainish Cycle, #3)
2 " Music rots when it gets too far from the dance. Poetry atrophies when it gets too far from music. "
― Ezra Pound , ABC of Reading
3 " Copywriting cuts the communication cord between word and feeling. By offering instant gratification, it atrophies more subtle emotions. "
4 " To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available, the judicial mind atrophies and its perspective shrinks. "
