"These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world. Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of everyone of its members. Society is a joint-stock company, in which the members agree, for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Sometimes in our lives we all have pain. We all have sorrow. But if we are wise we know that there's always tomorrow.”

Source : Song: Lean On Me, 1972
“I need to feel strongly, to love and admire, just as desperately as I need to breathe.”

Source : Jean-Dominique Bauby (2008). “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly”, p.55, Knopf Group E-Books
“Irrationality is the square root of all evil”

Source : "Irrationality is the Square Root of All Evil". Scientific American, 249 (3), September 1983.
“I am not a demon. I am a lizard, a shark, a heat-seeking panther. I want to be Bob Denver on acid playing the accordion.”

Source : "The Heat-Seeking Panther" by Dana Stevens, www.slate.com. July 22, 2010.
“My escape is to just get in a boat and disappear on the water.”
“Our perception that we have 'no time' is one of the distinctive marks of modern Western culture.”

Source : Margaret Visser (2015). “The Rituals of Dinner: The Origins, Evolution, Eccentricities, and Meaning of Table Manners”, p.276, Open Road Media
“I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.”
“Through the sharp air a flaky torrent flies, Mocks the slow sight, and hides the gloomy skies; The fleecy clouds their chilly bosoms bare, And shed their substance on the floating air.”

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