"I'll just bleed so the stars can have something dark to shine in"

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Source : Frank Stanford (1977). “The battlefield where the moon says I love you: a poem”, Lost Roads Pub

Frank Stanford

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“The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man.”

Source : Thomas Malthus (2015). “An Essay on the Principle of Population and Other Writings”, p.47, Penguin UK
“The only thing that permits us to acquiesce in an erroneous theory is the lack of a better one, analogously, an injustice is tolerable only when it is necessary to avoid an even greater injustice.”
“I personally believe that each of us was put here for a purpose -- to build not to destroy. If I can make people smile, then I have served my purpose for God.”
“In addition to pumping the blood of life within our bodies, we may think of the heart as a belief-to-matter translator. It converts the perceptions of our experiences, beliefs, and imagination into the coded language of waves that communicate with the world beyond our bodies. Perhaps this is what philosopher and poet John Mackenzie meant when he stated, "The distinction between what is real and what is imaginary is not one that can be finely maintained ... all existing thing are ... imaginary."”
“AIDS and malaria and TB are national security issues. A worldwide program to get a start on dealing with these issues would cost about $25 billion... It's, what, a few months in Iraq.”
“The masses are always wrong...Wisdom is doing everything the crowd does not do. All you do is reverse the totality of their learning and you have the heaven they're looking for.”
“If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.”
“The nice thing about having a friend who is crazier than you are is that she bolsters your belief in your own sanity.”

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