"we use TV as we use tranquilizers- to even things out, to blot out unpleasantness, to dilute confusion, distress, unhappiness, loneliness."

-- Bill McKibben

#Loneliness Quotes #Confusion Quotes #Use Quotes

“I work like a gardener.”
“I don't have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness - it's right in front of me if I'm paying attention and practicing gratitude.”
“The world needs a better understanding of how to encourage innovation. And innovators need to get better at it. Sign me up.”
“Where is the stretch? Where is the perfect fit? Where does it make sense? You have to be a Baryshnikov.”
“When I was at Brown. In other words, I'd heard about [H.P. Lovecraft], but I didn't pay that much attention till I happened to go to a meeting about it. And then I got just totally turned on.”
“The revision of the books of Judges, Samuel, and Kings, undertaken towards the end of the Babylonian exile, a revision much more thorough than is commonly assumed, condemns as heretical the whole age of the Kings.”

Source : Julius Wellhausen (2013). “Prolegomena to the History of Israel: With a Reprint of the Article 'Israel' from the Encyclopaedia Britannica”, p.5, Cambridge University Press
“It is unfortunate for the gods that, unlike us, they cannot commit suicide.”
“I have always made sure that I put my game ahead of anything else, sometimes even before friends and family.”

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