"There's no need to inundate the world with books and language. It's just too full already. There's so much rubbish hiding in the world. But as long as I think I can do something inventive and insightful, then I'll keep doing it."

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Source : Interview with Aaron Shulman, believermag.com. July 1, 2015.

#Book Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Long Quotes

“I don't want affirmative action - too much affirmative, not enough action.”
“The moral values I've learnt in my life I've learnt through football.”
“And though behind you lies a road of dust and heat and discouragement, and before you the challenge and uncertainty of untried paths, in this brief hour you are master of all highways, and the universe nestles in your soul.”
“Even the most mundane objects are things of wonder, if we stop to look at them, and the fact that we are alive is the biggest wonder of all.”
“Personally, I am convinced the human personality does survive the change which we call death. Although we have no scientific evidence of this at present, there is no reason to suppose it will always be lacking.”
“You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.”

Source : Joan Baez (1968). “DAYBREAK”
“Every impulse we strangle will only poison us.”
“The military is a meritocracy. It's an up or out. It's shaped like a pyramid.”

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