"It's bad if we are controlled, but if we're not, it can be even worse."

-- Slavoj Å½iÅ¾ek

“All these years I've had a story in my mind, the story about us that never really existed. And because of that story, I've kept you framed up on the wall in a little box of nostalgic moonlight.”
“Think hard about the reasons for believing and not believing, what your religion teaches you and demands so inexorably that you believe. I am convinced that if you follow closely the natural light of your spirit, you will see ... that all the religions in the world are only human inventions and that everything your religion teaches you and forces you to believe as supernatural and divine is at heart only error, lie, illusion and trickery.”
“Gathering news in Russia was like mining coal with a hat pin.”
“Jeremy Clarkson is rather charming, but I can't stomach his public persona. I don't like his casual racism and casual misogyny.”
“Genius is mainly an affair of energy, and poetry is mainly an affair of genius; therefore a nation whose spirit is characterized by energy may well be imminent in poetry - and we have Shakespeare.”
“Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from friends.”

Source : Theocritus (1947). “A Translation of the Idylls of Theocritus”, Cambridge : University Press
“The real pride, the real present, is your health and your longevity. My whole career, I have never done anything where competition was involved with weight loss.”
“Being smart young men, they say to themselves, "I want to get married, have a family, and I understand my wife wants to work too. Do you, Vicki, know how to help us do that?" Because they're no longer looking at that prospective wife, saying, "Well this is wonderful, you're getting educated, but of course as soon as we get married, you're going to stay home and make babies."”

Source : Interview with Erik Hansen, tompeters.com.

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