"What sense would it make or what would it benfit a physician if he discovered the origin of the diseases but could not cure or alleviate them?"

-- Paracelsus

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“A little criticism makes me angry, and a little rejection makes me depressed. A little praise raises my spirits, and a little success excites me. It takes very little to raise me up or thrust me down. Often I am like a small boat on the ocean, completely at the mercy of its waves. All the time and energy I spend in keeping some kind of balance and preventing myself from being tipped over and drowning shows my life is mostly a struggle for survival: not a holy struggle, but an anxious struggle resulting from the mistaken idea that it is the world that defines me.”
“Choosing beauty over content (or choosing beauty as content) is always an act of sedition. If we accept the cant of official culture, we must believe that the beauty we steal from any man-made thing is stolen from its more virtuous and metaphysical backstory, wherein "real" beauty is said to reside.”
“Even when repressed, inequality grows; only the man who is below the average in economic ability desires equality; those who are conscious of superior ability desire freedom, and in the end superior ability has its way.”
“We're still dancing to tunes created by men who thought that a thunderstorm was a sig of God's anger.”
“...the wise man knows that every experience is to be viewed as a blessing.”

Source : Henry Miller (1957). “Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch”, p.27, New Directions Publishing
“You cannot fool an audience.”

Source : Marian Anderson (1956). “My Lord, what a Morning: An Autobiography”, University of Illinois Press
“But when that information travels only to a privileged few, when it is used to profit at the expense of the investing public, when that information comes by way of favored access rather than by acumen, insight or diligence, we must ask, 'Whose interest is really being served?'.”
“You need to love yourself and be yourself one hundred percent before you can actually love someone else.”

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