"I remember when the idea of living to be 40 seemed absurd."

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Source : "Gavin's Woodpile". www.brucecockburn.org. December 15, 2012.

Bruce Cockburn

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“Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.”
“Everybody wants life to speak to them with special kindness. Every personal story begs to be steered toward reverie, toward some relief from unpleasant truths: That you are a self, that beyond anything else you want the best for that self. That, if it is to be you or someone else, you need it to be you, no matter what.”

Source : Darin Strauss (2011). “Half a Life: A Memoir”, p.57, Random House
“Eating a tuna roll at a sushi restaurant should be considered no more environmentally benign than driving a Hummer or harpooning a manatee.”

Source : "The Perils Of Overfishing, Part 2". Interview with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 3, 2009.
“People in life quote as they please, so we have the right to quote as we please. Therefore I show people quoting, merely making sure that they quote what pleases me”
“Shall an invention be patented or donated to the public freely? I have known some well-meaning scientific men to look askance at the patenting of inventions, as if it were a rather selfish and ungracious act, essentially unworthy. The answer is very simple. Publish an invention freely, and it will almost surely die from lack of interest in its development. It will not be developed and the world will not be benefited. Patent it, and if valuable, it will be taken up and developed into a business.”

Source : "Elihu Thomas lays down principles for inventors" by Thomas, E., Electrical World 75, (p. 1505), 1920.
“Dismantling the ego, quieting the mind, isn't something you can actively undertake to do. It just happens on its own, when you consciously accept the moment you are in, when you don't fight the present reality with thoughts of how you'd like it to be otherwise, or what you're afraid the next moment might bring, when you don't resist with justification or regret or blame of self or other.”

Source : Jan Frazier (2007). “When Fear Falls Away: The Story of a Sudden Awakening”, p.192, Weiser Books
“Answers? Forget answers. The spectacle is all in the questions.”

Source : Rebecca Goldstein (1993). “The Mind-Body Problem”, Penguin Group USA
“Kindness is not an act, it's a lifestyle.”

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