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"And just think what rare delights—nay, what whole sets of ecstasies and blisses—this much gold would buy. How fortunate that metal was mindless slave of the man who held it!"

"I have a great deal of respect and admiration for the youth climate movement, and I am grateful to young climate activists for pushing us all to examine our behaviours and act on innovative solutions.…"

"I've had letters from Chinese scientists at the peak of the SARS epidemic who said the problem is a hybridization between the viruses planted into GMO feed, which is then fed to animals, then the viru…"

"Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind."

"Optimism is the parent of despair, while pessimism allows the mind to accustom itself to the inevitable disappointments of human existence by degrees, just as some drugs induce a state of tolerance. P…"

"Humans cannot communicate; not even their brains can communicate; not even their conscious minds can communicate. Only communication can communicate."

"You find him disgusting with his thick mouth and ugly body and wet appealing eyes. You think he's disgusting and you're afraid."

"The Dark Crystal is a movie I saw a little too young, it shocked me a little bit and never left my mind."

"Whenever government assumes to deliver us from the trouble of thinking for ourselves, the only consequences it produces are those of torpor and imbecility."

"He'd been mistaken in thinking that if he killed himself the sordid bourgeois world would perish with him."

"Since the Greeks the predominant attitude of thinkers towards intellectual activity was to glorify it insofar as it finds its satisfaction in itself, apart from any attention to the advantages it may …"

"6050. Your Head's so hot, that your Brains bubble over."

"You think that you're on the brink? The shit hasn't even begun to hit the fan."

"Those who do monumental work don't need monuments."

"The hurt is in the act of possession; we are too small in mind and body to possess another person without pride or to be possessed without humiliation. In a way I was glad my wife had struck out at me…"

"I jus' try to sacrifice myself, so I get runner to third. If I do, I feel good. But I get heet and Willie scores, and I feel better than good. What makes me feel most good is that the skipper let me p…"

"There's no black and white, left and right to me anymore; there's only up and down and down is very close to the ground. And I'm trying to go up without thinking about anything trivial such as politic…"

"The universe doesn't give you what you ask for with your thoughts — it gives you what you demand with your actions."

"I realized I was thinking about fiction two-dimensionally. When I’m writing comics, I’m also visualizing how the story will look on the page—not even always art-wise, but panel-wise, like how a moment…"

"The music has gotten thick. Guys give me tunes and they're full of chords. I can't play them...I think a movement in jazz is beginning away from the conventional string of chords, and a return to emph…"