"I stay active and choose to associate myself with like-minded people."

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Source : Interview with Ocean Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. August 1, 2014.

Jake T. Austin

#People Quotes #Active Quotes #Associates Quotes

“What he meant, of course, was that there would always be wars, that they were as easy to stop as glaciers. I believe that, too. And even if wars didn't keep coming like glaciers, there would still be plain old death.”
“Our nature is to worship, but unless that element is directed towards God it becomes "a senseless impersonal force, carrying us away in its momentum. It becomes a search for ecstasy - no matter what kind achieved through destruction...The worshipful integraton of nature in the person is inverted in a hellish imprisonment of the individual in nature."”
“Here the Frenchman, Spaniard, and Englishman all passed, leaving each his legend; and a brilliant and more or less feudal civilization with its aristocracy and slaves has departed with the economic system upon which it rested.”
“People think edges are bad, but they are really there to keep up from falling to pieces. They don't hold us back, they hold us in. They hold us together.”
“You need to be locally relevant, globally consistent.”
“Most fishing rods work better if you grasp them at the thick end. If you grasp a fisherman at the thick end, you may get a thumb bit off.”
“I put the ball in play. That's what I want.”
“Humor is what happens when we're told the truth quicker and more directly than we're used to.”

Source : George Saunders (2012). “The Brain-Dead Megaphone”, p.80, A&C Black

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