"The passions refuse to be organized on a basis of their own; hostile to personal freedom and one another, they rush precipitately into anarchy and mob rule."

-- Amos Bronson Alcott

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“Toasted Heretic should have been cherished and helped, rather than ignored or sneered at, or put down as "quirky band with an arrogant singer". So I certainly didn't help the band, but the virtues I had meant that we recorded albums when everyone else just listened to them. But, yes, if you could suffer from high self-esteem, then I certainly suffered.”
“The first sign on a declining civilization is a decline in the arts.”

Source : Diana Palmer (2011). “The Case of the Missing Secretary”, p.109, Harlequin
“There is no word or action but may be taken with two hands,--either with the right hand of charitable construction, or the sinister interpretation of malice and suspicion; and all things do succeed as they are taken. To construe an evil, action well is but a pleasing and profitable deceit to myself; but to misconstrue a good thing is a treble wrong,--to myself, the action, and the author.”
“Lying is not only a defense mechanism; it's also a coping mechanism and a survival technique.”
“In most cases, people, even wicked people, are far more naive and simple-hearted than one generally assumes. And so are we.”
“One may not regard the world as a sort of metaphysical brothel for emotions.”
“Do not let people put you down. Believe in yourself and stand for yourself and trust yourself.”

Source : Jacob Neusner (1984). “How to grade your professors, and other unexpected advice”, Beacon Press (MA)
“I think ultimately one would say that the most difficult part of the Perfume: The Story Of A Murderer is the balancing of the main character. To get him being so ambivalent in his whole conception.”

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