"Be greatly aware of the present."

-- Gautama Buddha

“To say that a being who is sentient has no interest in continuing to live is like saying that a being with eyes has no interest in continuing to see. Deathâ€”however â€œhumaneâ€â€”is a harm for humans and nonhumans alike.”
“I must have the sun and warmth. I need to be in the sun - I'm a true island baby.”

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“I do seem to have a bit of a predilection for movies that say something transgressive.”
“Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas.”

Source : "Haud Immemor: Reminiscences of Legal and Social Life in Edinburgh and London, 1850-1900". Book by Charles Stewart, p. 33, 1901.
“One of the main truths of all education is that if the young are not always right, the old are always wrong.”
“I still am champion in my own right.”
“I remember the first check I got from The Who's recording [of "Young Man Blues"]. I'd been getting checks for $10 and $15 and so forth, and this one was for a much larger amount than that. I thought it was a mistake.”
“The laws of thought are natural laws with which we have no power to interfere, and which are of course not to be in any way confused with the artificial laws of a country, which are invented by men and can be altered by them. Every science is occupied in detecting and describing the natural laws which are inflexibly observed by the objects treated in the Science.”

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