"To me, the counterculture was always what I grew up with the hippies in the late '60s. But, however you define it, it's really the excesses of youth and it's something that everyone goes through to some extent. Or if they don't, they should do."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Derek Ridgers

#Hippie Quotes #Excess Quotes #Youth Quotes

“When I was a younger man and had a life, I owned an El Camino pickup in the '70s. It was a real sort of Southern deal. I had Astroturf in the back.”
“Schools in amerika are interested in brainwashing people with amerikanism, giving them a little bit of education, and training them in skills needed to fill the positions the capitalist system requires. As long as we expect amerika's schools to educate us, we will remain ignorant.”
“There's only one place you want to be and that's Wembley, Old Trafford or Anfield.”
“Men make their own happiness, and a man may be respected even though only a slave.”

Source : G. A. Henty (2012). “The Cat of Bubastes: A Tale of Ancient Egypt”, p.34, Courier Corporation
“Even if we all want you here, you don't belong until you decide you do.”
“My first instrument was an accordion. Growing up in Louisiana, my grandmother gave me an accordion because of our Cajun heritage.”
“When a man's intellect is constantly with God, his desire grows beyond all measure into an intense longing for God and his incensiveness is completely transformed into divine love. For by continual participation in the divine radiance his intellect becomes totally filled with light; and when it has reintegrated its passible aspect, it redirects this aspect towards God, filling it with an incomprehensible and intense longing for Him and with unceasing love, thus drawing it entirely away from worldly things to the divine.”
“Baseball gives ... a growing boy self-poise and self-reliance. Baseball is a man maker.”

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