"Even a mirror will not show you yourself, if you do not wish to see."

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Source : "Lord of Light". Book by Roger Zelazny, 1967.

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“If cancer specialists were to admit publicly that chemotherapy is of limited usefulness and is often dangerous, the public might demand a radical change in direction-possibly toward unorthodox and nontoxic methods, and toward cancer prevention. ...The use of chemotherapy is even advocated by those members of the establishment who realize how ineffective and dangerous it can be.”

Source : Ralph W. Moss (1996). “The Cancer Industry: The Classic Exposé on the Cancer Establishment”
“To perceive means to immobilize... we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.”

Source : "Matter and Memory".
“The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.”
“I like the idea of going out with a woman and not doing anything, and just eating dinner and talking, and that's cool, too. So, someone might look at me and say, "No way, man. He's just banging strippers." And I do that, but not all the time.”
“I think it's (Israeli pressure for invading Iraq) the worst kept secret in Washington, everybody I talked to in Washington has known and fully knows what their agenda was and what they were trying to do; because I mentioned the Neo-Conservatives who describe themselves as Neo-Conservatives, I was called, Anti-Semitic.”

Source : 60 Minutes Interview, May 21, 2004.
“I don't diet per se, I don't weigh myself, I don't look at a number - I haven't done that in probably twenty-five years. I just try to do one of the green drinks nearly every single day, and it's been a long time since I've been sick or anything, so I think it really works.”
“On tough days, you gotta have heart. Don't quit, whatever you do. Persevere.”
“A good song to one person could just be something mediocre to somebody else. It's always strange thinking about how songs connect with people.”

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