"Fact is based upon vulgar matter."

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Charles Olson

#Matter Quotes #Facts Quotes #Vulgar Quotes

“All legitimate government is a mutual insurance company, voluntarily agreed upon by the parties to it, for the protection of their rights against wrong-doers. In its voluntary character it is precisely similar to an association for mutual protection against fire or shipwreck.”
“Action must be taken at once, there is no time to be lost.”
“Immortality without eternity is a rope with only one end.”

Source : Multatuli, E. M. Beekman (1974). “The Oyster & the Eagle: Selected Aphorisms and Parables of Multatuli”, p.61, Univ of Massachusetts Press
“They were seeking out the treasure of their destiny, without actually wanting to live out their destiny.”
“Marc Cherry is so good at writing himself into a corner, then writing himself out of that corner. Its really fun to watch that.”
“I feel like you can have entertainment, and you can laugh, but during that period of time you can also think, and people should get upset. America is spending a lot of time and money pretending to be searching for people who we're not really searching for. That is enough to get someone angry.”
“When I started, they told me I only needed 3 chords and the truth... It turned out I could manage with 2 and some vague ideas.”
“Although Nature needs thousands or millions of years to create a new species, man needs only a few dozen years to destroy one.”

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