"Fly without wings; Dream with open eyes; See in darkness."

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Dejan Stojanovic

#Dream Quotes #Eye Quotes #Wings Quotes

“My songs emerge unbidden and unplanned and completely on a schedule of their own...We have, all of us, over the years, written things that responded to the world as it slapped us in the face. Me and Nash, singing "To the Last Whale" and "Find the Cost of Freedom". Stills coming up with "For What It's Worth". These came right out of the news. People have accused us of taking stances and the truth is we don't.”
“Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it; that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.”
“Even if my mother had no qualms of conscience concerning ownership of negroes, her sense of duty carried her far beyond the mere supplying of their physical needs, or requiring that they render faithful service.”

Source : John Sergeant Wise, Paul Dennis Sporer (2005). “End of an Era: The Last Days of Traditional Southern Culture as Seen Through the Eyes of a Young Confederate Soldier”, p.25, Anza Publishing
“I think if you were to look at my resume in total you would see a lot of things that are kind of all over the map.”
“What in Gods name is it worth to be human, if we have to be saved from ourselves by a machine?”
“As Americans, which I suffer from myself, we have ADD.”
“You need to screw up to learn. You need to experience to create greatness.”
“The impermanence of the universe is manifest, inescapable. I know that, yet I am immoderately attached to this life, these pleasures, this place.”

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