"Much that is natural, to the will must yield. Men manufacture both machine and soul, And use what they imperfectly control To dare a future from the taken routes."

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Source : Thom Gunn (2010). “The Sense of Movement”, p.6, Faber & Faber

Thom Gunn

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“I am so far from being a pessimist...on the contrary, in spite of my scars, I am tickled to death at life.”

Source : Bhagwat S. Goyal, Eugene O'Neill (1975). “The Strategy of Survival: Human Significance of O'Neill's Plays”, Ghaziabad : Vimal Prakashan
“The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by. The saint is the man who walks through the dark paths of the world, himself a light.”
“We like foreplay with God, but we make sure we have our spiritual contraceptives on! Cause we don't want to conceive nothing.”
“Government schooling made people dumber, not brighter; made families weaker; ruined formal religion with its hard-sell exclusion of God; set the class structure in stone by dividing children into classes and setting them against one another; and has been midwife to an alarming concentration of wealth and power in the hands of a fraction of the national community.”
“There are similarities between business and sport, in the pressures involved and in the fitness aspect too.”
“The real danger from advertising is that it helps to shatter and ultimately destroy our most precious non-material possessions: the confidence in the existence of meaningful purposes of human activity and respect for the integrity of man.”

Source : "The Political Economy of Media: Enduring Issues, Emerging Dilemmas". Book by Robert W. McChesney, May 1, 2008.
“All orthodox opinion - that is, today, "revolutionary" opinion either of the pure or the impure variety - is anti-man.”
“Columbus's eggs lie around by the hundreds of thousands, but Columbuses are met with less frequency.”

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