"If someone like Karl Rove had wanted to neutralize the most creative, intelligent, and passionate members of his opposition, he'd have a hard time coming up with a better tool than Burning Man. Exile them to the wilderness, give them a culture in which alpha status requires months of focus and resource-consumptive preparation, provide them with metric tons of psychotropic confusicants, and then... ignore them. It's a pretty safe bet that they won't be out registering voters, or doing anything that might actually threaten electoral change, when they have an art car to build."

-- John Perry Barlow

#Art Quotes #Men Quotes #Hard Times Quotes

“Get ready to move with Him as He manifests in the earth. The Lord says: "The sound you are hearing is that of horses' hooves. Heaven is mounting up. Rise up and look beyond. See into a place, a realm, that you have not fully seen.”

Source : "Chuck Pierce: 'You Must Worship Your Way Through the Confusion into a New Dimension' Plus 'Final 8 Days of 40 Days of Prayer'". www.elijahlist.com. October 6, 2009.
“Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.”
“I've been watching basketball for a long time, I'm a historian of the game. I don't know any other team that's gotten to the Finals without two All-Stars... I cannot remember thinking of it. I don't even know if it's ever happened, for a team to lose two All-Stars and still be able to make it to the Finals.”
“My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.”
“I came from poverty and was part of those circumstances.”
“It's a scary thing, when a person you admire is suddenly revealed to be absolutely, truly human.”
“Plants grow most in the darkest hours preceding dawn; so do human souls. Nature always pays for a brave fight. Sometimes she pays in strengthened moral muscle, sometimes in deepened spiritual insight, sometimes in a broadening, mellowing, sweetening of the fibres of character,â€”but she always pays.”
“Black ink was always my favorite. I loved it. And then one day I realized that the only thing I ever wanted to do was to paint.”

Source : Interview with Zoe Stillpass, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 7, 2014.

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