“Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell’s despair.”
― William Blake
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Downright moron – H.L. Mencken
“As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
― H.L. Mencken
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Illumination – David Ogilvy
“I notice increasing reluctance on the part of marketing executives to use judgment; they are coming to rely too much on research, and they use it as a drunkard uses a lamp post: for support, rather than for illumination.”
– David Ogilvy
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It’s called – Very Grumpy Cat
“It’s called fuck off and it’s located over there.”
– Very Grumpy Cat @VeryGrumpyCat
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Two parties ― Jon Stewart
“The Republican party is the party of nostalgia. It seeks to return America to a simpler, more innocent and moral past that never actually existed.
The Democrats are utopians. They seek to create an America so fair and non-judgmental that life becomes an unbearable series of apologies.
Together, the two parties function like giant down comforters, allowing a candidate to disappear into the enveloping softness, protecting them from exposure to the harsh weather of independent thought.”
― Jon Stewart
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Eight kinds of coke – Jon Stewart
“I’m anti political parties. I don’t understand how in a country of 200 million voters, we only have two political parties. We have eight kinds of coke, but only two political parties”
– Jon Stewart
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True self – Julian Baggini
“Your true self, in part you discover, in part you create.”
– Julian Baggini
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Before the room was dark – Muhammad Ali
“I’m so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark.”
– Muhammad Ali
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What we want to be – Max DePree
“We cannot become what we want to be, by remaining what we are”.
– Max DePree
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Every generation – George Orwell
“Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.”
– George Orwell
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Meaning – Joseph Campbell
“What is the ‘meaning’ of a tree? of a butterfly? of the birth of a child? or of the universe? What is the ‘meaning’ of the song of the rushing stream? Such wonders simply are. They are antecedent to meaning, though ‘meanings’ may be read into them…So, likewise, are the images of myth, which open like flowers to the conscious mind’s amazement and may then be searched to the root for ‘meaning,’ as well as arranged to serve practical ends.”
– Joseph Campbell, The Flight of the Wild Gander
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Broken – Unknown
“We are all broken. That’s how the light gets in.”
– Unknown
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Fool – Roald Dahl
“A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul, and that, I am sure, is why he does it.”
– Roald Dahl
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The way you behave – Jake Gyllenhaal
“The way you behave with everybody is more important than the work you do. Generosity, kindness, and patience will get you so far: that’s the biggest lesson I’ve learned.”
– Jake Gyllenhaal
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There is room – H. G. Wells
“My warmest wishes to you Joyce. I can’t follow your banner any more than you can follow mine. But the world is wide and there is room for both of us to be wrong.”
– H. G. Wells