"You can assume all photo and video is constructed as a fiction controlled by the person holding the camera and the person who is editing."

“Dissections daily convince us of our ignorance of disease, and cause us to blush at our prescriptions. What mischief have we done under the belief of false facts and false theories! We have assisted in multiplying diseases; we have done more; we have increased their mortality. ... I am pursuing Truth, and am indifferent whither I am led, if she is my only leader.”

“Every moment of mindfulness means the gradual destruction of latent defilements. It is somewhat like cutting away a piece of wood with a small axe, every stroke helping to get rid of the unwanted fragments of wood.”

Source : Vidagama Maitreya, Mahasi Sayadaw, Susan Elbaum Jootla, Nyanaponika Thera, Ria Kloppenborg (2013). “Collected Wheel Publications Volume XX: Numbers 296–311”, p.76, Buddhist Publication Society

“The Japanese are, to the highest degree, both aggressive and unaggressive, both militaristic and aesthetic, both insolent and polite, rigid and adaptable, submissive and resentful of being pushed around, loyal and treacherous, brave and timid, conservative and hospitable to new ways.”

“Anxieties about ourselves endure. If our proper study is indeed the study of humankind, then it has seemed-and still seems-to many that the study is dangerous. Perhaps we shall find out that we were not what we took ourselves to be. But if the historical development of science has indeed sometimes pricked our vanity, it has not plunged us into an abyss of immorality. Arguably, it has liberated us from misconceptions, and thereby aided us in our moral progress.”

Source : Philip Kitcher (1982). “Abusing Science: The Case Against Creationism”, p.202, MIT Press

“You would not have called to me unless I had been calling to you," said the Lion.”

“The only way to Cuba is with the CIA.”

“Only out of stir and change is born new salvation. To deny that is to deny belief in man, to turn our backs on courage!”

“I've never done a solo tour. I feel like getting out there and doing that.”