"People, buying my stuff, can take it wherever they go and can rebuild it if they choose. If they keep it in their heads, that's fine too. They don't have to buy it to have it - they can just have it by knowing it."

-- Lawrence Weiner

#Knowing Quotes #People Quotes #Stuff Quotes

“Whosoever will list himself under the banner of Christ, must, in the first place and above all things, make war upon his own lusts and vices. It is in vain for any man to usurp the name of Christian, without holiness of life, purity of manners, benignity and meekness of spirit.”
“If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you; but if not, you have infinite power against you.”

Source : Charles George Gordon (1888). “Letters of General C.G. Gordon to His Sister, M.A. Gordon”, London ; New York : Macmillan
“Willful ignorance and endless laws become the replacement for self-education and self-restraint, because ignorance and laws are easy.”

Source : Holly Lisle (2001). “The Secret Texts”, p.194, Hachette UK
“It is very important to a lot of people to make unmistakably clear to themselves and to the universe that they love the universe but are not intimidated by it and will not be shaken by it, no matter what it has in store. Moreover, they demand something from themselves early in life that can be taken ever after as a demonstration of this abiding feeling.”
“When you lose someone, a whole lot of perfectly normal circumstances suddenly take on different meaning. You see it in a different light. You wonder if they knew. I wondered. Doctors have told me that people do have a sense of their own approaching death.”
“Enjoy the day as if it were your last.”
“I'm really into a blush on the eyelid and on the high of the cheek. The singer of 'Cocteau Twins' used to do that - really pink eyelids. It added a little romance to the hard kind of street-edge clothes.”
“Man was never meant to be a god, but he is forever trying to deify himself.”

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