"Nobody does anything for one reason."

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Source : Interview with Robert I. Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. January 18, 2005.

Russell Banks

#Doe Quotes #Reason Quotes

“The passionate controversies of one era are viewed as sterile preoccupations by another, for knowledge alters what we seek as well as what we find.”

Source : "Sisters in Crime: The Rise of the New Female Criminal". Book by Freda Adler, 1975.
“If we go around clearing up our own mess and being positive about our own lifestyle, other people will start copying us and picking up their own carbon 'litter' too”
“In life, you're along for the ride either way. You might as well make it fun!”
“I try hard and aim big. People can hate or love my books but they can never accuse me of not trying.”
“Facing the press is not easy, but because you have to go, you have to try to take a lot of positive things for yourself from these face-to-face meetings.”
“Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the true test of spirituality. But there have always have been those who'd rather put easier goals, like doctrine conformity, in place.”
“Life is a vast, unknowable movement of wholeness with no one separate from it and nothing outside of it.”

Source : Toni Packer (2007). “The Light of Discovery”, p.14, Shambhala Publications
“Genuinely great humour recognises the world it's describing and yet we are also called into question by it. That's what great art should do. That's what great philosophy should do. The one thing about humour is that this is an everyday practice that does this.”

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