Jonathan Ott famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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While public school history courses in the United States stress the horrors of the German Nazi murder of 6 million Jews and Josef Stalin's pogroms against racial minorities and political dissidents in the Soviet Union, the facts that the U.S. Army's solution to the 'Indian Problem' was the prototype for the Nazi 'Final Solution' to the 'Jewish Problem' and that the North American Indian Reservation was the model for the twentieth century gulag and concentration camp, are conveniently overlooked.
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I firmly believe that contemporary spiritual use of entheogenic drugs is one of humankind's brightest hopes for overcoming the ecological crisis from which we threaten the biosphere and jeopardize our own survival, for Homo sapiens is close to the head of the list of endangered species.
-- Jonathan Ott
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However, I must stress that my own interest is immediate and in the picture. What I am conscious of and what I feel is the picture I am making, the relation of that picture to others I have made and, more generally, its relation to others I have experienced.
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If you get to a point where something happens today to stress you out, take a breath & center your thoughts on peace. Ignored thoughts die.
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Cash is available and we should use that in larger amounts, as is necessary, to solve the problems of the stress of this.
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I developed a mania for Fitzgerald - by the time I'd graduated from high school I'd read everything he'd written. I started with 'The Great Gatsby' and moved on to 'Tender Is the Night,' which just swept me away. Then I read 'This Side of Paradise,' his novel about Princeton - I literally slept with that book under my pillow for two years.
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Yeah, I left Idaho at 17. You know, I graduated high school a year early and just, you know, the typical story, packed up my car and moved out.
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I was a very awkward high schooler, especially in early high school. I had the middle part with a swoop, all that. It was the late ’90s!
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The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight.
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Take up the weapons of the glorious army for the salvation of many thousands.
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It won't be a question of how well-trained or well-equipped the army is but one of the authority it serves.
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The liberation movement which I led in Algeria, the organization that I created to fight the French army, was at first a small movement of nothing at all. We were but some tens of people throughout Algeria, a territory that is five times the size of France
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