"I would be the last to disparage the genius of the politicians who make our laws," Hutchison wrote around that time, "the writers who make our books, the artists who make our pictures, but in gauging the true culture of the nation and reckoning its tensile strength, let the student not neglect hockey"

-- Bruce Hutchison

#Book Quotes #Hockey Quotes #Artist Quotes

“Thereâ€™s something kind of rewarding about playing the hurricane. My job is to create drama and chaos and thereâ€™s a lot of fun to be had doing that.”
“A self-conscious society will therefore endeavor to limit sect forming by providing for the widest possible diffusion of secular knowledge.”

Source : Edward Alsworth Ross (1920). “The Principles of Sociology”
“We knew our days were numbered. We had fouled up our lives and we were getting ready for a shake-up.”
“Consciousness-Based Education is just plugging us all into the beautiful, eternal field within, and then watching things get better, which is what happens. It's a field of infinite, unbounded peace within every human being, and when you experience it, you enliven that peace.”
“Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.”
“I really thought I was pretty good before I saw Hendrix, and then I thought: Yeah, not so good.”
“It seemed like the best weapons in my life had always been the most innocuous: empty plastic bins, a blank CD, an unmarked syringe, my smile in a dark room.”
“Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.”

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