"You know, the whole philosophy of ad hoc combinations has its strengths and its weaknesses."

-- Evan Parker

#Philosophy Quotes #Weakness Quotes #Combination Quotes

“Religion, even the most primitive and superstitious, is inevitably a beginning of culture. It is not possible without some kind of symbolic expression ... and begets dramatic gesture, dance, and chant ...”
“The days that I keep my gratitude higher than my expectations, I have really good days.”
“The gun goes off and everthing changes... the world changes... and nothing else really matters.”
“How long does it take your soul to realize that your life is full? The slower the living, the greater the sense of fullness and satisfaction.”
“At 11, 12, I thought I was clumsy, ugly, a mess, an unappealing person, but I did have the gift of the gab. I had the school record at Haberdashers for consecutive detentions for simply speaking out of turn.”
“I was in fact pretty much - by the larger culture, by the local culture, by people around me, by people on TV - encouraged to imagine women as something slightly inferior to men.”
“I tried Zen and Ching, numerology, tarot cards and astrology. I tried to look back into the Bible, and could not find anything. At this time I did not know anything about Islam, and then, what I regarded as a miracle occurred. My brother had visited the mosque in Jerusalem, and was greatly impressed that while on the one hand it throbbed with life.”
“Dark humor appealed to me because it was a bigger laugh than you could get with anything else. Seeing people laugh at something inappropriate with their whole bodies, a guttural, visceral laugh beyond a mere "hah."”

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