"Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness."

-- Seneca the Younger

#Alcohol Quotes #Madness Quotes #Drunkenness Quotes

“I have a relative who is also gay. We can't help it if they were born that way.”
“Leaving American disaster victims to languish is morally reprehensible and un-American.”

Source : "Season of Calamities Necessitates Compassion Aid: Don’t Require Offsets for Emergency Disaster Relief" by Cedric L. Richmond, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 1, 2011.
“We always need to be prepared and work hard in practice so we can be just like the farmer who has put that fourth cutting of hay in the barn. After he does that, he can feel good about what is going to happen the rest of the winter.”
“Surprises, like misfortunes, seldom come alone.”
“When it's time to get dressed, put on your clothes. When you must walk, then walk. When you must sit, then sit. Just be your ordinary self in ordinary life, unconcerned in seeking for Buddhahood. When you're tired, lie down. The fool will laugh at you but the wise man will understand.”
“Are you sick and tired of these moralizing moralizers imposing their morality on the rest of us? I know I am.”
“We seem to invest so much time and belief that those things are stable in some way - something to build towards, or something to use to better understand where we come from. So often those expectations are just so out of line with how the universe works. I don't see it as a productive way of seeing the world, so, when I deal with that stuff formally - or when I try to allow it to inspire me - I'm open to it twisting itself up.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com
“One must be prepared to reject not only the schema of the physical library, which is essentially a response to books and their proliferation, but the schema of the book itself, and even that of the printed page as a long term storage device, if one is to discover the kinds of procognitive systems needed in the future.”

Source : "Quantitative measurement and dynamic library service" by Ching-chih Chen, (p. 52), 1980.

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