"I think of death as a glad awakening from this troubled sleep which we call life; as an emancipation from a world, which, beautiful though it may be, is still a land of captivity."

-- Lyman Abbott

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“The trumpet was not a lyrical singing instrument.”
“Support for alternate languages will largely depend on the underlying OS.”
“Most of these students are so conditioned to success that they become afraid to take risks. They have been taught from a young age by zealous parents, schools, and institutional authorities what constitutes failure and success. They are socialized to obey. They obsess over grades and seek to please professors, even if what professors teach is fatuous. The point is to get ahead, and getting ahead means deference to authority. Challenging authority is never a career advancer.”
“We as the band are passionate and energetic musicians. We have minimised the amount of self-criticism. Fear of death, total impatience and an unconcerned attitude to weary notions of good and bad is what's making us exceed speed limits. We're hijacking the holy inspiration from otherness, and we don't spoil it with personal aesthetic preferences. We are panthers and gazelles, not slugs and tortoises. Though it must be said that after turning forty I've started to resemble a sloth more and more.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com
“If you want to change somebody, don't preach to him. Set an example and shut up.”

Source : "R.I.P. Jack LaLanne" by Matt Ufford, uproxx.com. January 24, 2011.
“If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.”
“If you are a woman and you bought this book for practical tips on how to make it in a male-dominated workplace, here they are. No pigtails, no tube tops. Cry sparingly. (Some people say â€œNever let them see you cry.â€ I say, if youâ€™re so mad you could just cry, then cry. It terrifies everyone.)”
“The only philosophy is that of language, the only religion is that of the word.”

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