"because of the myth of progress, it is much easier to sell a man an electric razor than a straight-edged one."

-- Jacques Ellul

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“Exercise and sports are greatly affected by what goes into the mind, and the mind is greatly affected by sports and exercise as well. This is true among exercisers at all levels, despite their different goals. A major element in mental training is visualization ... Visualizing a positive outcome can create a pattern of success, as long as you set realistic and specific goals.”

Source : Grete Waitz, Gloria Averbuch (2000). “On The Run: Exercise and Fitness for Busy People”, Rodale Books
“For me, music was always a second language. I didn't have a musical background, and I started studying very late, at fourteen.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Holy Moses, let us live in peace. Let us strive to find a way to make all hatred cease. There's a man over there, what's his colour I don't care, he's my brother, let us live in peace.”
“If it is not the fashion now, it will be later because I wear it.”
“But if you tell folks you're a college student, folks are so impressed. You can be a student in anything and not have to know anything. Just say toxicology or marine biokinesis, and the person you're talking to will change the subject to himself. If this doesn't work, mention the neural synapses of embryonic pigeons.”
“Once you know about a work of mine you own it. There's no way I can climb inside somebody's head and remove it.”

Source : "Slowly Adapting Art: Moving with the Times" by Nika Knight, www2.oberlin.edu. April 27, 2007.
“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.”
“The corporation is one of the great unheralded human inventions of destruction. It is a way to absolve from any personal liability a bunch of people. They form together in a massive ID and they do whatever they want.”

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