"The more I see of what you call civilization, the more highly I think of what you call savagery!"

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Robert E. Howard

#Thinking Quotes #Civilization Quotes #Savagery Quotes

“Creative work only seems like a magic trick to people who don't understand that it's ultimately still work.”
“Music has just as much to do with movement and body as it does soul and intellect.”
“Jesus says if you want to have me, you must give up that other thing that has you.”
“Every atom you possess has almost certainly passed through several stars and been part of millions of organisms on its way to becoming you. We are each so atomically numberous and so vigorously recycled at death that a significant number of our atoms-up to a billion for each of us, it has been suggested-probably once belonged to Shakespeare. A billion more each came from Buddha and Genghis Khan and Beethoven, and any other historical figure you care to name.”
“I live to inspire girls, volunteers, Girl Scout staff and alumni”
“We do see Gong Li, Zhang Ziyi and Chow Yun Fat, but it's very rare to see the Chinese male actor in Hollywood movies, which is something I take great umbrage with. You know, my son is Asian. He may want to direct one day; he may want to be an actor like his father - and I want that to be open to him.”
“A world where nothing is had for nothing.”

Source : Arthur Hugh Clough (1848). “The Bothie of Toper-na-fuosich: A Long-vacation Pastoral”, p.44
“I know very well that many scientists consider dowsing as they do astrology, as a type of ancient superstition. According to my conviction this is, unjustified. The dowsing rod is a simple instrument which shows the uncanny reaction of the human nervous system to certain factors which are unknown to us at this time.”

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