"Marihuana leads to pacifism and communist brainwashing."

-- Harry J. Anslinger

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“The man who claims he's never done anything courageous doesn't understand what courage really is.”
“Ceaseless optimism about the future only makes for a greater shock when things go wrong; by fighting to maintain only positive beliefs about the future, the positive thinker ends up being less prepared, and more acutely distressed, when things eventually happen that he can't persuade himself to believe are good.”

Source : "The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking". Book by Oliver Burkeman, www.newyorker.com. 2012.
“There are threads in our lives. You pull one, and everything else gets affected.”

Source : Dennis Lehane (2010). “Mystic River”, Hachette UK
“It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.”
“When we teach kids to follow the rules that thereâ€™s only one right answer & to avoid mistakes at all costs, weâ€™re resigning them to average.”

Source : Twitter post from May 07, 2012
“Look ere thou leap, see ere thou go.”

Source : Thomas Tusser (1812). “Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry”, p.221
“Some of us should learn to ask for bold things that require God.”
“I don't suppose you do know precisely what you are after. I don't think in the creative process anyone quite knows. They have a vague idea - a beckoning, an inkling of some truth - it is only in the process that it comes to any clarity.”

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