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“Life is like a maze in which you try to avoid the exit.”
Source : Roger Von Oech (2001). “Whack on the Side of the Head”, Mjf Books
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“When attention is given to the spiritual aspect of one's life, it brings a sense of belongingness, and responsibility, compassion and caring for the whole of humanity.”
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“The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.”
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“Every contrition for sin is apt to encourage a not quite charitable wish that other people should exhibit a similar contrition.”
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“The Civic Culture (and The Civic Culture Revisited) remains the best study of comparative political culture in our time.”
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“Health is so important now, it's ridiculous - the body has become frightening, this thing that will kill you if you don't keep really healthy. The body is the enemy now.”
Source : "Jenny Hval's Soft Dick Rock". Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. June 15, 2015.
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“Happiness is closer to the experience of acceptance and contentment than it is to pleasure. True happiness exists as the spacious and compassionate heart's willingness to feel whatever is present.”
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“Success comprises in itself the seeds of its own decline and sport is not spared by this law.”
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“The Visitors reported by contactees, abductees, and other witnesses may, in fact, be a highly advanced amphibian or reptilian culture from an extraterrestrial world, who evolved into the dominant species on their planet millions of years ago and who have interacted in Earth's evolution as explorers, observers, caretakers, and genetic engineers.”
Source : Brad Steiger, Sherry Hansen Steiger (2011). “Real Aliens, Space Beings, and Creatures from Other Worlds”, p.67, Visible Ink Press
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“The images evoked by words being independent of their sense, they vary from age to age and from people to people, the formulas remaining identical. Certain transitory images are attached to certain words: the word is merely as it were the button of an electric bell that calls them up.”
Source : Gustave Le Bon (1947). “The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind”, p.57, Lulu.com