"We need a coat with two pockets. In one pocket there is dust, and in the other pocket there is gold. We need a coat with two pockets to remind us who we are."

-- Parker J. Palmer

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“I tattooed my body so I couldn't fall back on anything. I purposely did that so I couldn't get a normal job and live a normal life. I did it so I had to play music.”

Source : "Pop Quiz: Travis Baker". Interview with Aidin Vaziri, www.sfgate.com. June 26, 2005.
“Through all the years of experimenting and research, I never once made a discovery. I start where the last man left off. All my work was deductive, and the results I achieved were those of invention pure and simple.”
“There should be fireworks at last, when a dream dies.”
“It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.”
“From an evolutionary point of view, most emotions - fear, desire, anger - serve some practical purpose, but nostalgia is a useless, futile thing because it is a longing for something that is permanently lost . . . .”

Source : David Nicholls (2014). “Us”, p.336, Hachette UK
“I used to go to the library all the time when I was kid. As a teenager, I got a book on how to write jokes at the library, and that, in turn, launched my comedy career.”
“Our culture is like a garment that does not fit us, or in any case no longer fits us. This culture is like a dead language that no longer has anything in common with the language of the street. It is increasingly alien to our lives.”

Source : "Prospectus et tous écrits suivants, Vol. II". Book by Jean Dubuffet, p. 94, 1967.
“The 1970s, the decade of my teenage years, was a transitional period in American youth culture.”

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