"Christians should be troublemakers, creators of uncertainty, agents of a dimension incompatible with society."

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Jacques Ellul

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“What is worth doing is worth the trouble of asking somebody to do it.”
“I have been, earlier in my life, a lazy writer. I'd spend three hours at the gym to avoid writing, or I'd just find other distractions - reading, doing laundry, talking on the phone, etc. But suddenly I was like a laser beam: I was relentlessly focused, sometimes to the detriment of other things.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Love and happiness remind me of sticky peanut butter. When you spread them around, you can't help but end up getting some on yourself!”
“I am neither Christian enough nor charitable enough to like anybody just because he is alive and breathing. I want people to interest or amuse me. I want them fascinating and witty or so dul as to be different. I want them either intellectually stimulating or wonderfully corny; perfectly charming or hundred percent stinker. I like my chosen companions to be distinguishable from the undulating masses and I don't care how.”
“Money. You don't know where it's been, but you put it where your mouth is. And it talks!”

Source : Dana Gioia (2016). “99 Poems: New & Selected”, p.91, Macmillan
“Nobody can make more fun of me than I already make of myself.”
“Drue [Langlois] and I started making music together before we started the Art Lodge, so I guess musical collaboration came first. The music we made, and our performances, always had a visual component. I could never play an instrument, so these other elements compensated for that a little.”
“You know what I'm intrigued by? Like, space and wormholes and Stephen Hawking's theories and Richard Dawkins's theories. That's what I care about.”

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