"Credentials have been a problem for a long time in my work. Originality has been my strength, and credentials and academia have not been."

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Source : "Alien Discussions: Proceedings of the Abduction Study Conference". Book by Andrea Pritchard, p. 134, 1994.

Budd Hopkins

#Long Quotes #Academia Quotes #Originality Quotes

“Since each person, as an individual, is the not-being of the other, it is never possible to eliminate non-understanding completely.”
“Only by acknowledging the success and sacrifice made by those who came before us can we fully understand what we must do to ensure the liberty of those who will succeed us.”

Source : "Black History Is American History" by Rep. Yvette Clarke, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 10, 2010.
“I got really passionate about music with early Smiths and Joy Division. And New Order, Sonic Youth, Cramps...kind of right across the board, whatever fell underground. Kraftwerk...it was really mixed. Quite confusing, I suppose, but it just felt good.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“The spirit is an inward flame; a lamp the world blows upon but never puts out.”
“When someone beats a rug, the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it.”
“Remember the White Knight.”
“Much of traditional magic takes place by the light of the Moon. In the night world we are closer to the unconscious, the hidden, that which has yet to be made manifest, that which is suppressed and as yet realized. Past, present, and future are simultaneously one in the realm of the unconscious. Night is when this world and the other world can meet.”
“And when you discover what you will be in your life, set out to do it as if God Almighty called you at this particular moment in history to do it. Don't just set out to do a good job.”

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