"Enlightenment! When it comes, it comes like a brick to the head, doesn't it?"

-- Scott Lynch

#Enlightenment Quotes #Bricks Quotes

“I wish the country had fewer lawyers and more engineers.”
“I began by tinkering around with some old tunes I knew. Then, just to try something different, I set to putting some music to the rhythm that I used in jerking ice-cream sodas at the Poodle Dog. I fooled around with the tune more and more until at last, lo and behold, I had completed my first piece of finished music.”
“Cannot the love of Christ carry the missionary where the slave-trade carries the trader? I shall open up a path to the interior or perish.”
“To talk intelligibly about modern physics, we have to admit the possibility of uncaused events.”
“I'm a UFC fighter, a macho-type sport. I am a heterosexual guy in a tough macho sport, which is exactly the reason I feel a duty to say I support gay marriage and gay rights. I have nothing to gain personally from supporting this issue, and that's the point. Society as a whole is better when there is equality, and I want to live in a country where everyone has the same rights because we all benefit from that”

Source : "UFC Fighter Rashad Evans Comes Out In Support Of Gay Marriage" by Jim Budzinski, www.businessinsider.com. March 13, 2013,.
“I think golf is a waste of time and a waste of a sunny afternoon. I also stink at it. I have never found anything, including divorce and a sexual harassment suit, more frustrating.”
“I worry that friends will slowly become professional pallbearers, waiting for each death, of their lovers, friends and neighbors, and polishing their funeral speeches; perfecting their rituals of death rather than a relatively simple ritual of life such as screaming in the streets.”

Source : David Wojnarowicz (2017). “Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration”, p.113, Canongate Books
“A key U.S. initiative in this trade war must be to develop reliable trading partners in the world.”

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