"I think the more you understand myths, the more you understand the roots of our culture and the more things will resonate. Do you have to know them? No, but certainly it is nice to recognise how deeply these things are embedded in our literature, our art."

-- Rick Riordan

#Art Quotes #Nice Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Failure does not exist. Once you hit the construction zone road blocks, follow the detour signs to get back to ur original path.”
“Therefore, vegetarianism alone can give us the quality of com-passion, which distinguishes man from the rest of the animal world.”
“To fight is to face death once more, perhaps the total annihilation of their kind. But to run... is that not also a kind of annihilation?”
“The United States has tried for years to live down President Franklin D. Roosevelt's order during World War II to move Japanese-Americans on the West Coast to inland detention camps on grounds that they might be disloyal.”
“Life is a carousel. It goes up and down. All U gotta do is just stay on.”
“Give a Little Bit has a wonderful message and makes people light up and I get them to sing with me. It really has a message that is very eternal and is needed even more today than it was when I wrote it when I was 19.”

Source : FaceBook post by Roger Hodgson from Oct 14, 2011
“We learn our sexual preferences and orientations.”
“What is false creates taste, and reinforces itself by knowingly eliminating any possible reference to the authentic. And what is genuine is reconstructed as quickly as possible, to resemble the false.”

Source : Guy Debord (1998). “Comments on the Society of the Spectacle”, p.50, Verso

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