"Put on all the armor of the Lord. Not just the pretty stuff."

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Source : Mark Vonnegut, M.D. (2010). “Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So: A Memoir”, p.108, Delacorte Press

Mark Vonnegut

#Armor Quotes #Stuff Quotes #Lord Quotes

“Everywhere you go you find readers who are interested, even though the story takes place here in this very neighborhood. It doesn't matter that it takes place locally if the intention to make it universal is there. That's what I strive to do.”

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“President Obama has appointed a new head of the Secret Service. The new Secret Service director was so excited that he jumped over the White House fence for joy.”
“In a culture where profit has become the true God, self-sacrifice can seem incomprehensible rather than noble.”
“Could an android listen to the whining, requests for advancement, and entreaties for guidance and affection that pour from subordinates? Sure it could. Frankly, all that would be easier on the robot than it is on me.”
“What we want is another sample of life, which is not on our tree of life at all. All life that we've studied so far on Earth belongs to the same tree. We share genes with mushrooms and oak trees and fish and bacteria that live in volcanic vents and so on that it's all the same life descended from a common origin. What we want is a second tree of life. We want alien life, alien not necessarily in the sense of having come from space, but alien in the sense of belonging to a different tree altogether. That is what we're looking for, "life 2.0."”
“I'm shameless, and I love a pun. There's a lot of Beth puns.”
“There is a treadmill quality to workaholism.”
“Music-making as a means of getting money is hell”

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