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Jeff Mangum

"Often, everywhere we look, we seem to find obstacles and facades and smokescreens, so it was really nice to find things in the world that actually spoke to me. And I felt like Eastern thought really spoke to me. Because it isn't trying to cover up the pain in life; it's trying to deal with it and overcome it in an intelligent way. I think the reason I love Eastern thought so much, and mysticism in general - but especially Buddhism - is because it seems to me an attempt to look life squarely in the face, as it is."

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Jeff Mangum

#Pain Quotes #Nice Quotes #Buddhism Quotes

“To appreciate heaven well, it's good for a person to have some fifteen minutes of hell.”
“Bank One has got one of the best credit card divisions, ... The perception of investors is that financial services stocks are affected by interest rates and they're not.”
“I rejected the armed struggle because, as a Christian, I am committed to a nonviolent and peaceful struggle. But people take their own initiatives, because it is a Lebanon type of situation here.”
“Write. Start writing today. Start writing right now. Donâ€™t write it right, just write it -and then make it right later. Give yourself the mental freedom to enjoy the process, because the process of writing is a long one. Be wary of â€œwriting rulesâ€ and advice. Do it your way.”
“Mission [is] understood as being derived from the very nature of God. It [is] thus put in the context of the Trinity, not of ecclesiology or soteriology. The classical doctrine of the missio dei as God the Father sending the Son, and God the Father and the Son sending the Spirit [is] expanded to include yet another â€œmovementâ€: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit sending the church into the world.”
“To be black and conscious in America is to be in a constant state of rage.”

Source : "My Son Called Me The Hulk, And I’m OK With It" by Danielle Slaughter, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 28, 2016.
“I never thought that people my own age could die, let alone be murdered. Things like that didn't happen in 1955. The suburbs were a safe place, where nobody even locked their doors.”

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“REVOLUTION, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment. . . . the substitution of the rule of an Administration for that of a Ministry, whereby the welfare and happiness of the people were advanced a full half-inch.”

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