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Grace Slick

"It might be a good idea to have government totally by the people - that each person takes four or five hours of the week doing some kind of government job - in other words, along with what you do you also help maintain the government so no one person has total control - I might go down to an office for four hours and do whatever I'm capable of doing - writing out receipts for food distribution in a certain area - but it's all actually a monstrous secretarial job and that's all I think it should be."

-- Grace Slick

#Jobs Quotes #Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“The boundaries between you and not-you â€” what lies beyond your skin â€” relax and become more permeable. While infused with love you see fewer distinctions between you and others. Indeed, your ability to see others â€” really see them, wholeheartedly â€” springs open.”

Source : Barbara L. Fredrickson, Ph.D. (2013). “Love 2.0: Finding Happiness and Health in Moments of Connection”, p.20, Penguin
“The faith in which I was brought up assured me that I was better than other people; I was saved, they were damned.... Our hymns were loaded with arrogance - self-congratulation on how cozy we were with the Almighty and what a high opinion he had of us, what hell everybody else would catch come Judgment Day.”
“Christ is the very epitome of innocence, and without the blood of Christ, shed on Calvary, God's plan of salvation would not have been fulfilled.”
“There is one hell of a difference between fighting in the ring and going to war in Vietnam.”
“You think about some of the most memorable meals you've ever had; the food will be good but it will often be about locating a mental memory and taste is inexorably linked to all the other senses and memory, so ultimately it is all about taste.”

Source : "Heston Blumenthal: 'My food is really emotional'" by Nick McGrath, www.theguardian.com. March 30, 2012.
“I tried all my life to be a normal person. Stars are in the sky. I like cooking and gardening.”
“Alice Malloy had dark, stringy hair, and even her husband, who loved her more than he knew, was sometimes reminded by her lean face of a tenement doorway on a rainy day, for her countenance was long, vacant, and weakly lighted, a passage for the gentle transports and miseries of the poor.”
“Time that is spent dwelling on the past will surely continue in your present moment - and the future.”

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