"If a story seems moral, do not believe it. If at the end of a war story you feel uplifted, or if you feel that some small bit of rectitude has been salvaged from the larger waste, then you have been made the victim of a very old and terrible lie."

-- Tim O'Brien

#War Quotes #Lying Quotes #Believe Quotes

“Let's stop fracking. Who knows about hydraulic fracking? I'm like, whodie, get that oil out the ocean!”

Source : "Based Scripture: The Full Transcript of Lil B’s Lecture at NYU" by Duncan Cooper, www.thefader.com. April 12, 2012.
“I'm not going to go home and drink rat urine.”
“I know this world is far from perfect. I am not the type to mistake a streetlight for the moon. I know our wounds are deep as the Atlantic. But every ocean has a shoreline and every shoreline has a tide that is constantly returning to wake the songbirds in our hands, to wake the music in our bones, to place one fearless kiss on the mouth of that new born river that has to run through the center of our hearts to find its way home.”
“Socrates and Jesus, two teachers of virtue and love, were executed because of the unsettling, threatening power of their souls, which was revealed in their personal lives and in their words.”
“The system becomes more coherent as it is further extended. The elements which we require for explaining a new class of facts are already contained in our system. In false theories, the contrary is the case.”

Source : William Whewell (1968). “Theory of Scientific Method”, p.155, Hackett Publishing
“No one can define or measure justice, democracy, security, freedom, truth, or love. No one can define or measure any value. But if no one speaks up for them, if systems arenâ€™t designed to produce them, if we donâ€™t speak about them and point toward their presence or absence, they will cease to exist.”

Source : Donella Meadows (2008). “Thinking in Systems: A Primer”, p.177, Chelsea Green Publishing
“Zen pretty much comes down to three things -- everything changes; everything is connected; pay attention.”
“I have the '86 Haro Master that I built. It was the bike I wanted as a kid and couldn't afford, and I'm like, "I'm going to build that Haro and never ride it."”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com

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