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True art comes out of pain… When something terrible happens, it kind of shocks you into realizing that you’re mortal and life is a gift. – Brent Hinds (RIP/ Mastodon frm guitarist dead @ 51)
You’ll never change your life until you change something you do daily. John C. Maxwell
"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace". Jimi Hendrix
I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.
Martha Gellhorn
A great man is hard on himself; A small man is hard on others. - Confucious
I think a lot of people really have religious overtones of having come from somewhere. I mean, even the whole concept of religion is kind of alien. - George Clinton (met him once, he's one of the greats)
I am free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally.
W. C. Fields
When everyone goes home, you're stuck with yourself. - Layne Staley
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. - Ray Bradbury
“He touched my soul long before I knew what his hands felt like.” ― Nikki Rowe
"Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks" – Stephen Hawking
Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense. - Julian Casablancas
Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
Earl Nightingale
"The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever." — Jacques Cousteau
Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken. - Orson Scott Card
"We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope." — Martin Luther King, Jr.
We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones. - Jules Verne
To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
Isaac Asimov
When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
- Victor Hugo
“Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.” — Robert H. Schuller
The occultist does not try to dominate Nature but to bring himself into harmony with these great Cosmic Forces, and work with them. - Dion Fortune