"Your mind is your temple, keep it beautiful and free. Don't let an egg get laid in it by something you can't see."

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“I ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more.”

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"If a dancer dances - which is not the same as having theories about dancing or wishing to dance or trying to dance or remembering in his body someone else's dance - but if the dancer dances, everythin…"

— Merce Cunningham

Art1919–2009

#freedom

"If it's some style, especially some shrink-wrapped thing hanging on a wall at Toys 'R' Us, then it won't live, it won't be dynamic … It becomes exactly what the marketing people want — a genre, someth…"

— Mike Watt

Music1957

#friendship

"Character is what you are. Reputation is what others think you are. The reason that some fail to climb the ladder of success, or of leadership if you want to call it that, is that there is a differenc…"

— Lucian Truscott

Military1895–1965

#leadership

"In the meanest mortal there lies something nobler. The poor swearing soldier, hired to be shot, has his "honor of a soldier," different from drill-regulations and the shilling a day. It is not to tast…"

— Thomas Carlyle

Philosophy1795–1881

#death