"By disobeying god, we escape from his totalitarian prison where you cannot ask any questions, where you must never question authority. We become our human selves,"

-- Ann Druyan

#Self Quotes #Prison Quotes #Authority Quotes

“The love of spectacles was the taste, or rather passion, of the Syrians: the most skilful artists were procured form the adjacent cities; a considerable share of the revenue was devoted to the public amusements; and the magnificence of the games of the theatre and circus was considered as the happiness, and as the glory, of Antioch.”
“I think it's darkness before the dawn, because the next evolution is going to be a consciousness evolution instead of a communication revolution.”
“Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions. It seems almost as if progress itself and our fight against the increase of entropy intrinsically must end in the downhill path from which we are trying to escape.”
“There's bound to be a recovery in [capital spending] sometime soon. We have had basically no capital investment for about year. At some point, machinery wears out, and you've got to replace it.”
“Nothing burns like the cold. But only for a while. Then it gets inside you and starts to fill you up, and after a while you don't have the strength to fight it.”
“There is no system in the world or any school in the country that is better than its teachers. Teachers are the lifeblood of the success of schools.”
“I am against performance-enhancing drugs. I have never taken them and I never will take them.”

Source : "Marion Jones Gets Six Months in Prison" by Richard Esposito, abcnews.go.com. January 11, 2008.
“I love boxing, and I try to mix it up as much as I can. Boxing makes you kind of tight, so it's really good to mix that with barre, pilates, or something that'll stretch you out and make you longer. I'm not the person that loves to be in the gym so much. I like to mix it up as much as possible, otherwise I'll get bored.”

Source : Source: www.marieclaire.com

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