"I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife."

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Source : World Tomorrow "How It Feels to Be Colored Me" (1928)

Zora Neale Hurston

#Knives Quotes #Oysters Quotes #World Quotes

“Grace is not against good works! It simply does not bless on the basis of good works. We receive blessing from God based solely on the merits of His Son--blessings freely given to us in Christ and nowhere else. The completeness that is in Christ mean deliverance from trying to 'be good' and 'do right' in order to be accepted by God.”
“These substances function as unspecific amplifiers that increase the energetic niveau in the psyche and make the deep unconscious dynamics available for conscious processing. This unique property of psychedelics makes it possible to study psychological undercurrents that govern our experiences and behaviors to a depth that cannot be matched by any other methods and tools available in modern mainstream science. In emotional and psychosomatic disorders, for positive personality transformation, and consciousness evolution.”
“Human beings are not efficiently designed for a capitalist system of production.”

Source : Eric J. Hobsbawm (1994). “Age of extremes: the short twentieth century, 1914-1991”
“I like to carry around extremely pretentious books, and I don't know if I can read them, but if I hold them near me, it imbues me with a sense of powerful intelligence.”
“I believe in God. It makes no sense to me to assume that the Universe and our existence is just a cosmic accident, that life emerged due to random physical processes in an environment which simply happened to have the right properties. As a Christian I begin to comprehend what life is all about through belief in a Creator, some of whose nature was revealed by a man born about 2000 years ago.”
“I think when you dissect a joke too much, you have ruined whatever there is in comedy.”
“I love being objected to. It worries me, but I love being objected to.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“The last thing Australia needs right now is instability and uncertainty.”

Source : Press Statement, pmtranscripts.pmc.gov.au. February 08, 2015.

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