"One of the difficulties in understanding the brain is that it is like nothing so much as a lump of porridge."

-- Richard Gregory

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“You will not find your passion in things and you will not find your passion in money. The more things and the more money you have, the more you will look around and use that as the metric and there will be someone with more.”
“Living is a thing you do now or never which do you?”
“You will never be indecisive if you know your purpose.”
“I wanted to be involved in music and I felt I needed to get in quick. I didn't want to spend four years in college and then hope for the best. I gave myself a year, which is why I kept pushing people for a chance. I literally felt my whole life was in the balance. Music was my life, and I was scared of having time pass by and missing my chance.”
“You'd be forgiven for thinking that climate change means we'll have to sacrifice our creature comforts. But it doesn't have to be that way.”
“The bee is more honored than other animals, not because she labors, but because she labors for others.”
“Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.”

Source : "Fictional character: Don Birnam". "The Lost Weekend", www.imdb.com. October 5, 1945.
“Among all the modernized aspects of the most luxurious of industries, the model, a vestige of voluptuous barbarianism, is like some plunder-laden prey. She is the object of unbridled regard, a living bait, the passive realization of an ideal. No other female occupation contains such potent impulses to moral disintegration as this one, applying as it does the outward signs of riches to a poor and beautiful girl.”

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