"The freedom to swing your fist ends at my nose."

-- Mercedes Lackey

#Freedom Quotes #Swings Quotes #Noses Quotes

“I hate the technological rip-offs that pass for music formats these days, and go back to vinyl to hear a good record because the sound is always so much fuller. I don't even like listening to music in the car.”
“As a Southerner I would have to say that one of the main importances of the War is that Southerners have a sense of defeat which none of the rest of the country has.”
“The first impression of a new subject is not necessary the best. Seen from a different angle or under different condition it might look even better. Always study a three - dimensional subject with one eye closed.”
“The smaller the detail the greater the value.”
“It is not of the essence of mathematics to be conversant with the ideas of number and quantity.”
“The wise screen writer is he who wears his second-best suit, artistically speaking, and doesn't take things too much to heart.Â He should have a touch of cynicism, but only a touch. The complete cynic is as useless to Hollywood as he is to himself.Â He should do the best he can without straining at it.Â He should be scrupulously honest about his work, but he should not expect scrupulous honesty in return.Â He won't get it.Â And when he has had enough, he should say goodbye with a smile, because for all he knows he may want to go back.”
“The desire to live life to its fullest, to acquire more knowledge, to abandon the economic treadmill, are all typical reactions to these experiences in altered states of consciousness. The previous fear of death is typically quelled. If the individual generally remains thereafter in the existential state of awareness, the deep internal feeling of eternity is quite profound and unshakable.”
“Man did not address his inquiries to the earth on which he stood until a remarkably late stage in the development of his desire for knowledge. And the answers he received to the questions, "Where do I come from?", "What is man?", although they made him poorer by a few illusions, gave him in compensation a knowledge of his past that is vaster than he could ever have dreamed. For it emerged that the history of life was his history too...”

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