"Every mind is a room packed with archaic furniture."

-- Dee Hock

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“Who am I, that you should love me?”
“Good night, then - sleep to gather strength for the morning. For the morning will come. Brightly will it shine on the brave and true, kindly on all who suffer for the cause, glorious upon the tombs of heroes. Thus will shine the dawn.”
“I was in a bar the other night, hopping from barstool to barstool, trying to get lucky, but there wasn't any gum under any of them.”
“Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.”
“So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.”
“I would not want to forget the first time I read The Lord of the Rings. I would never want to forget that! That was so magical to me, and that was a real eye-opening experience. I was probably 11 when I read that and already a reader, but I think that book really showed me how you can be transported and how your imagination can take you to a whole other place.”
“Glorify who you are today, do not condemn who you were yesterday, and dream of who you can be tomorrow.”
“Power is not of a man. Wealth does not center in the person of the wealthy. Celebrity is not inherent in any personality. To be celebrated, to be wealthy, to have power requires access to major institutions.”

Source : C. Wright Mills (2000). “The Power Elite”, p.11, Oxford University Press

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