"I think my apocalyptic feelings went deeper than [heavily influenced by Reagan and AIDS]. I'm really at peace with how afraid I am."

-- Michael Stipe

#Thinking Quotes #Feelings Quotes #Aids Quotes

“Confucius once said that a bear could not fart at the North Pole without causing a big wind in Chicago.”
“So I make no effort to hide my pain. I donâ€™t ever put it all on display like thisâ€”but for today and all the rest of the days of the trial, I must. My every flinch, every flicker of pain, will be magnified a hundred times over, then dissected by the pundits and talking heads. But Iâ€™m told itâ€™s necessary; the world needs to see me vulnerable and wounded. I cannot appear not to care or to lack remorse, but that removes a crucial component of my self- defense mechanism and leaves me bleeding for all the world to see. I suppose thatâ€™s rather the point.”
“In the liner notes, music is fine by itself. It doesn't need any explanation.”
“Mastering others is strength. Mastering oneself makes you fearless.”
“Because men have so long ruled the world, it does not follow that the philosophy by which they have ruled it is the correct one.”
“I think it's restrictive to typecast myself as a novelist because I enjoy other forms of expression. I love literature and I love cinema.”
“The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue.”
“The truth seems . . . to be that in the ultimate and essential problem the economic factor is relatively superficial and unimportant.”

Source : Frank H. Knight, Ross B. Emmett (1999). “Selected Essays by Frank H. Knight, Volume 2: Laissez Faire: Pro and Con”, p.83, University of Chicago Press

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