"I made a living out of being a class clown"

-- Shannon Hoon

#Class Quotes #Clown Quotes #Made Quotes

“The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness. To call on them to give up their illusions about their condition is to call on them to give up a condition that requires illusions. The criticism of religion is, therefore, in embryo, the criticism of that vale of tears of which religion is the halo.”
“Next to the word 'Nature,' 'the Great Chain of Being' was the sacred phrase of the eighteenth century, playing a part somewhat analogous to that of the blessed word 'evolution' in the late nineteenth.”
“I'm a science fiction geek from birth - that's just who I am.”
“People in power have to be careful about what comes out of their mouth. They have to find exactly the right word that can't be attacked.”
“My deepest impulses are optimistic; an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect.”

Source : Ellen Willis (2012). “Beginning to See the Light: Sex, Hope, and Rock-And-Roll”, p.80, U of Minnesota Press
“Christ Not Begotten of Holy Ghost... Christ was begotten of God. He was not born without the aid of Man, and that Man was God!”
“What humans want most of all, is to be right. Even if we're being right about our own doom. If we believe there are monsters around the next corner ready to tear us apart, we would literally prefer to be right about the monsters, than to be shown to be wrong in the eyes of others and made to look foolish.”

Source : David Wong (2012). “This Book Is Full of Spiders: Seriously, Dude, Don't Touch It”, p.20, Macmillan
“The best fish in the world are of course those one catches oneself.”

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