"When I see a dolphin, I know it's just as smart as I am."

-- Don Van Vliet

#Smart Quotes #Dolphins Quotes

“Desires repeatedly mastered for the sake of present duty make us richer. Lack of desire is poverty.”
“Just like Pagliacci did, I try to keep my surface hid. Smiling in the crowd I try, but in a lonely room I cry.”
“I like to eat chocolate and pizza - that's my vice! - just like everyone else, but if I do it I have to keep it under control.”
“I can tell you that today 99% of my investments are in Brazil and will remain here.”
“For me, the most ironic token of [the first human moon landing] is the plaque signed by President Richard M. Nixon that Apollo 11 took to the moon. It reads, â€˜We came in peace for all Mankind.â€™ As the United States was dropping seven and a half megatons of conventional explosives on small nations in Southeast Asia, we congratulated ourselves on our humanity. We would harm no one on a lifeless rock.”
“Everything abstract is ultimately part of the concrete. Everything inanimate finally serves the living. That is why every activity dealing in abstraction stands in ultimate service to a living whole.”
“Anarchism, to me, means not only the denial of authority, not only a new economy, but a revision of the principles of morality. It means the development of the individual as well as the assertion of the individual. It means self-responsibility, and not leader worship.”

Source : Voltairine de Cleyre (2012). “Exquisite Rebel: The Essays of Voltairine de Cleyre -- Anarchist, Feminist, Genius”, p.156, SUNY Press
“I guess I had what you could call an unconventional upbringing.”

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