"If you don't know about it, you can't get it."

-- Sue Johanson

“There are certain times when a certain person says something to me, that will stick with me for a really long time. But I don't remember one person being my idol, or anything like that.”
“Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.”
“You start by writing to live. You end by writing so as not to die.”
“Anyone who studies the state of things which preceded the French Revolution will see that the tremendous catastrophe came about from so excessive a regulation of men's actions in all their details, and such an enormous drafting away of the products of their actions to maintain the regulating organization, that life was fast becoming impracticable. And if we ask what then made, and now makes, this error possible, we find it to be the political superstition that governmental power is subject to no restraints.”
“Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view and demand that they respect yours.”

Source : "A Sourcebook for Earth's Community of Religions". Book by Joel Diederik Beversluis, 1993.
“People have a right to change their minds and it has absolutely nothing to do with you. People change. As people change, their needs change. When people have a need, it is their responsibility to themselves to see their needs are met. And it has absolutely nothing to do with you.”
“Make the kind of music you love even if you never hear it on the air. This was the basic lesson I'd gotten from Alan [Lomax]. Alan said, Pete, look at all this great music around. You never hear it on the radio, but it's right there, great music.”
“You can't create a new reality with the same personality.”

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