"Education itself is a putting off, a postponement; we are told to work hard to get good results. Why? So we can get a good job. What is a good job? One that pays well. Oh. And that's it? All this suffering, merely so that we can earn a lot of money, which, even if we manage it, will not solve our problems anyway? It's a tragically limited idea of what life is all about."

-- Tom Hodgkinson

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“Let me read you some of my poetry. My poetry just takes me to another level.”
“To feel is to communicate with your Spirit-with God. Feeling is God's mirror; intuition is God's telephone. To seek your truth is to deepen your connection to Spirit.”
“Through every generation of the human race there has been a constant war, a war with fear. Those who have the courage to conquer it are made free and those who are conquered by it are made to suffer until they have the courage to defeat it, or death takes them.”
“I want everything back, the way it was. But there is no point to it, this wanting.”
“Tony Vigorito has grown a cult following of thousands for one reasonâ€”his stuff is fun to read... Itâ€™sâ€¦ filled with the freshness and the freewheeling independence that made his reputation... This book is the â€˜workâ€™ of one of the least pretentious and most enjoyable to read novelists at play in America today...”
“The first time I lose I drink whiskey, second time I lose I drink gin. Third time I lose I drink anything 'cause I think I'm gonna win.”

Source : Song: Ooh Las Vegas, Album: Grievous Angel, 1974
“My wife is amazing. She had to know she was getting into a heap of trouble when we met.”

Source : "Taylor Hanson of Tinted Windows". Interview with Aidin Vaziri, www.sfgate.com. August 30, 2009.
“Economy is the basis of society. When the economy is stable, society develops. The ideal economy combines the spiritual and the material, and the best commodities to trade in are sincerity and love.”

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