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That is why we dread children, even if we love them.
They show us the state of our decay.
Brian Aldiss
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Fear is something you have to throw into a corner.
Constantly. Because it never goes away.
F. Lee Bailey
HISTORY, n. An account mostly false, of events mostly
unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly
knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil�s Dictionary
I�d die in your arms, if you were dead too
Bush "Little Things"
I�m never alone, I�m alone all the time
Bush "Glycerine"
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All a man can betray is his conscience.
Joseph Conrad
But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world
to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak
things of the world to confound the things which are
mighty...
1 Corinthians 1:27
Nothing is more dangerous then an idea when it is the only one we have
Emile Chartier
In these circumstances I decided that the only safe
thing for me to do was go for myself. It became clear
that it was possible for me to take the initiative:
instead of simply reacting I could act. I could
unilaterally - whether anyone agreed with me or not -
repudiate all allegiances, morals, values - even while
continuing to exist within this society. My mind
would be free and no power in the universe could force
me to accept something if I didn�t want to. But I
would take my own sweet time. That, too, was part of
my new freedom..
Eldridge Cleaver, Soul on Ice
When we have ceased to love the stench of the human
animal, either in others or in ourselves, then are we
condemned to misery, and clear thinking can begin.
Cyril Connolly, The Unquiet Grave
See the sea of people, all their faces look the same
Creed "Pity For a Dime"
You see my wrist, I know your pain
Creed "What�s This Life For"
O thou that drawest toward the End of The Path, effort
is no more.
Faster and faster dost thou fall; thy weariness is
changed into Ineffable Rest.
For there is no Thou upon That Path: Thou hast become
The Way.
Aleister Crowley, The Book of Lies
She�ll break a promise as a matter of course
Because she thinks it�s fun to have no remorse
Curve, "Chinese Burn"
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Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take
when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the
minds of others.
Benjamin Disrauli
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What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow
Out of this stony rubbish? Son of man,
You cannot say, or guess, for you know only
A heap of broken images, where the sun beats,
And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no
relief...
T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land
What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are
Epictetus
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Creative thinking may simply mean the relization that there is no particular virtue in doing things the way they have always been done.
Rudolph Flesch
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You�ll want to hear about my new obsession, I�m riding high upon a deep depression
Garbage "Happy When it Rains"
What drives you on can drive you mad
Garbage "Stupid Girl"
Tell me why your conscience lies
And all your guilt is gone
Don�t you feel you ever could be wrong?
Godhead, "Suffer"
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If you don�t ask "Why this?" often enough, somebody will ask "Why you?"
Tom Hirshfield
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One can fall in love as often as a tree grows leaves. It is perfectly natural but not free of guilt and complications, unless one takes oneself to be a leaf.
David Ignatow
By way of deception, thou shalt do war
motto of Israel�s Institute for Intelligence and Special Taks
(Mossad)
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Learn to pause� or nothing worth while will catch up to you
Doug King
One should judge a man mainly from his depravities.
Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real.
Klaus Kinski
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Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses
yearning to breathe free...
Emma Lazarus, "The New Colossus"
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Though we share this humble path, alone
How fragile is the heart
Oh give these clay feet wings to fly
To touch the face of the stars
Breathe life into this feeble heart
Lift this mortal veil of fear
Take these crumbles hopes, etched with tears
We�ll rise above these earthly cares
Loreena McKennitt, "Dante�s Prayer"
Never be, never see, won�t see what might have been
Metallica "The Unforgiven"
The world is too big and too intricate to conform to
our ideas of what it should be like......The world
is confusing, and just because we invent myths and
theories to explain away the chaos we�re still going
to live in a world that�s older and more complicated
than well ever understand.
Moby
Is evil just something you are?
Or something you do?
Morrissey, "Sister I�m a Poet"
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Those who came before me
Lived through their vocations...
New Order, "Blue Monday"
Sacred cows make great steaks
Richard Nicolosi
I�m not like them, but I can pretend
Nirvana "Dumb"
I�m worse at what I do best and for this gift I feel blessed
Nirvana
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Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist after growing up
Pablo Picasso
Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction
Pablo Picasso
If you do not raise your eyes, you will think you are
the highest point.
Antonio Porchia, Voces
I have good advice and sound wisdom;
I have insight, I have strength.
By me kings reign, and rulers decree what is just;
By me rulers rule, and nobles, all who govern rightly.
Proverbs 8:14-16
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For a minute I lost myself.
Radiohead, "Karma Police"
Cause I�ll rip the mike, rip the stage, rip the system. I was born to rage against �em
Rage Against the Machine "Know Your Enemy"
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He takes great pride in doing things like...ordering
a $40 million Gulfstream V jet by e-mail, or buying a
twenty-four-thousand-square-foot mansion and leaving
it nearly empty of furniture. His motto, his
philosophy, his raison d�etre, can be summed up in
three little words: Because I can.
Mike Sager
The Normal is the good smile in a child�s eyes - all
right. It is also the dead stare in a million adults.
It both sustains and kills - like a God. It is the
Ordinary made beautiful: it is also the Average made
lethal. The Normal is the indispensible, murderous
Gof of Health, and I am his Priest. My tools are very
delicate. My compassion is honest. I have honestly
assisted children in this room. I have talked away
terrors and relieved many agonies. But also - beyond
question - I have cut from them parts of individuality
repugnant to this God, in both his aspects. Parts
sacred to rarer and more wonderful Gods.
Peter Shaffer, Equus
Man delights not me.
William Shakespeare, Hamlet
And oftentimes, to win us to our harm,
The instruments of darkness tell us truths,
Win us with honest trifles, to betrays
In deepest consequence.
William Shakespeare, Macbeth
Why should a man, whose blood is warm within, sit like
his grandsire cut in alabaster?
William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act I, Scene I
Blacker than a bullet,
shiny as the stars we cannot find.
Shriekback, "Sticky Jazz"
.. and leave you like they left me here to wither in denial; the bitterness of one who�s left alone
Smashing Pumpkins "Disarm"
If I were dead would my records sell, could you even tell, is it just as well
Smashing Pumpkins "Heavy Metal Machine"
Fool enough to almost be it, cool enough to not quite see it, doomed. Pick your pocket full of sorrow, run away with me tomorrow.
Smashing Pumpkins "Mayonnaise"
I fear that I am ordinary just like everyone
Smashing Pumpkins "Muzzle"
I will breathe for the both of us. Travel the world, traverse the skies. Your home is here within my heart
Smashing Pumpkins "Stand Inside Your Love"
Times are gone for honest men
SoundGarden "Black"
Whatsoever I�ve fought off became my life
SoundGarden "Fell on Black Day"
We live in the age of incivility and rancor.
Kenneth Starr
Society is a madhouse whose wardens are officials and
police.
August Strindberg
The highest joy of man is creativity.
Boris Strugatsky
Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different
Albert Szent-Gyogyi
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The universe seems bankrupt as soon as we begin to
discuss the characters of individuals.
Henry David Thoreau
The savage in man is never quite eradicated
Thoreau
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The truth shall set you free.
motto of the United States� Central Intelligence Agency
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This kind of experience is necessary for the learning.
The Venus in Furs, "Baby�s On Fire
We use ideas merely to justify our evil, and speech
merely to conceal our ideas.
Voltaire, Dialogue XIV
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