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Jesse Torrey
"We shall not refuse tobacco the credit of being sometimes medical, when used temperately, though an acknowledged poison." --
Source : Jesse Torrey (1819). “The Moral Instructor, and Guide to Virtue and Happiness: Being a Compendium of Moral Science, in Four Parts ... : with an Appendix Containing Directions for the Institution of Free Public Libraries, and Reading Societies : Designed for the Use of Families, and the Highest Classes in Common Schools and Academies”, p.186
Jesse Torrey
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“I think you will agree that life's plans are not always tied up in neat little packages. Occasionally we find ourselves at unexpected crossroads with more than one opportunity from which to choose. Time itself is often the best indicator of which decision to make, for it can tell so many thing that are now hazy.”
Source : Linda Lee Chaikin (2011). “Tomorrow's Treasure”, p.445, WaterBrook
“I explained it when I danced it.”
Source : "Unknown pleasures: do we enjoy art more if it's anonymous?" by Lyndsey Winship, www.theguardian.com. October 3, 2016.
“Also, right at that particular time in the music business, because of people like the Beatles, people began owning their own publishing. I'll just say this really quickly - they used to divide the money for the music that was written in two, just equal halves.”
“Over and over victims are blamed for their assaults. And when we imply that victims bring on their own fates - whether to make ourselves feel more efficacious or to make the world seem just - we prevent ourselves from taking the necessary precautions to protect ourselves. Why take precautions? We deny the trauma could easily have happened to us. And we also hurt the people already traumatized. Victims are often already full of self-doubt, and we make recovery harder by laying inspectors blame on them.”
“People talk about 'lives of significance'-as if there's an alternative. If you're not leading a life of significance, you're not living.”
“In a comedy, after the day is done, you can figure out ways of how to make it even funnier for the next day. In dramas, it's very different - the mindset that you're in.”
“We are not the people who made this world, Lukas, but it's up to us to survive it. You need to understand that." "We can't control where we are right now," he mumbled, "just what we do going forward.”
Source : Hugh Howey (2013). “Wool”, p.434, Simon and Schuster
“I want to show you an optimistic sign that things are beginning to turn around.”
