"Everyone wants to see someone shoot someone in the head."

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Oliver Jackson-Cohen

“I'm possessed by love â€” but isn't everybody?”
“Ahhh, I love to love you baby, ahhh.”
“I feel that as long as you're honest, you have the opportunity to grow. It's when you shut down, go into denial, and try to start hiding things from yourself and others, that's when you lock in certain behaviors and attitudes that keep you stuck.”
“I will talk and act, not on my knees, but with prudence.”
“I think laughter is crucial. Some of the original cultures, like the Dalit and the Native American, don't separate laughter and seriousness.”
“You can walk as carefully as you want through a mine field; it is still a mine field. But it's also true that if you step up to the plate worrying that you're going to strike out, the odds are that you're going to strike out. Not doing a large ambitious work because you're convinced that Danger Lurks Around Every Corner, the old 'I might be dead this time next year,' is a waste of the Inner Radiance that found you. It's like life insurance. It's betting against yourself. It's blowing out your own flame before someone beats you to it.”
“There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly.”

Source : Thomas Reid, Ronald E. Beanblossom, Keith Lehrer (1983). “Thomas Reid's Inquiry and Essays”, p.129, Hackett Publishing
“Live only for today, and you ruin tomorrow.”

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