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Philander Chase Johnson
"Don't throw a monkey-wrench into the machinery."
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Source : Everybody's Magazine, p. 36, May 1920.
Philander Chase Johnson
#Monkeys Quotes
#Machinery Quotes
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“The vitality that can stand the abyss of meaninglessness is aware of a hidden meaning within the destruction of meaning.”
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“You can tell yourself that you would be willing to lose everything you have in order to get something you want. But it's a catch-22: all of those things you're willing to lose are what make you recognizable. Lose them, and you've lost yourself.”
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“Your body has natural healing capacities that nobody in the field of medicine can pretend ultimately to understand.”
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“They still believe in God, the family, angels, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other obsolete stuff.”
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“I am an artist and a writer, and I do think that one always places oneself in the picture to see where one fits.”
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“In Romania, I train on a bar that is bent. My gym has bad lighting and very little heat in the winters. Here in America, you have everything you need to train. It's not in the bar or the gym or the platform it's in you.”
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“A squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa.”
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“I know of no wars started by anyone to impose lack of religion on someone else.”