"Such creatures of accident are we, liable to a thousand deaths before we are born. But once we are here, we may create our own world, if we choose."

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Source : Mary Antin (2013). “The Promised Land”, p.40, Courier Corporation

Mary Antin

#World Quotes #May Quotes #Born Quotes

“People don't care to read what they already think or what any people think - they know all that well enough. They want to know what they ought to think.”
“Look at Satan's reason for rebelling against God. It's not that he doesn't recognize that God is greater than he is. He does. It's just that he doesn't want to play by anybody else's rules. This idea that it is better to reign in hell than to serve in heaven is Satan's motto, and it turns out that this is also the motto of contemporary atheists such as Christopher Hitchens.”
“To me, songwriting is the backbone of Nashville. Looks can go, fads can go, but a good song lasts forever.”
“A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.”

Source : Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari (2004). “EPZ Thousand Plateaus”, p.13, A&C Black
“That Sinn Fein, as I've already indicated, their leaders have already indicated that's what they want to achieve - once we get that credible statement, then we can get around the table and start to move forward, and I'm confident we can do so.”
“The king dead is a living god.”

Source : Julian Jaynes (2000). “The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind”, p.153, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“We are actually living in a million parallel realities every single minute.”
“Yeah, I thought I could be heavyweight champion of the world when I was working with Ali and Joe Frazier and Earnie Shavers and all those guys. Because they were older than me and I was doing my thing.”

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