"A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labor and his leisure; his mind and his body; his education and his recreation. He hardly knows which is which."

-- FranÃ§ois-RenÃ© de Chateaubriand

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“There was the natural human survival instinct to be optimistic.”

Source : Barbara Demick (2010). “Nothing To Envy: Real Lives In North Korea”, p.60, Granta
“Ooh, J, he's got ink too." "Just when i didn't think he could get any hotter...”
“You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.”
“My name became a brand, and I'd love to say that was the plan from the start. But the only plan was to keep writing books. And I've stuck to that ever since.”
“And when you look at the twentieth-century experiment with collectivism-that Ayn Rand, more than anybody else, did such a good job of articulating the pitfalls of statism and collectivism-you can't find another thinker or writer who did a better job of describing and laying out the moral case for capitalism than Ayn Rand.”
“We have been too kind to those who are killing the planet. We have been inexcusably, unforgivably, insanely kind.”

Source : Derrick Jensen (2012). “The Derrick Jensen Reader: Writings on Environmental Revolution”, p.198, Seven Stories Press
“I don't know how to depict intelligence.”
“There are times when, for many years, I've been irrelevant - and it was OK! I had my moment. No one is responsible for anyone else's dreams. I don't need a babysitter. I just needed to know that I could do this. I just think that my happiest time or my best time, upon reflection, is that I had the courage to do this.”

Source : "'Songs I Can Sing Ya': An Interview with Andy Kim and Kevin Drew". Interview With Evan Sawdey, www.popmatters.com. February 24, 2015.

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