"Fear is the mother of all gods ... Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods."

-- Lucretius

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“Never commit yourself to a cheese without having first examined it.”
“The girl that introduced The Smiths' song 'Asleep' to me was an important musical influence that I met in college. From there it's been an ongoing journey of different bands at different times, introducing bands and songs to me.”
“There is no joy for someone who has no sorrow. There is no pleasure for the one who has no patience No bliss for someone with no misery and no rest for the one with no fatigue. When someone is a little tired, he has long rest. When he endures the difficulty of steadfastness for a time, that leads him to eternal life. All that the people of eternal bliss are in is steadfastness for a time.”
“If you are good to this one and that one, this one and that one will say that you are good. If you are good to everyone, no one will say that you are good.”
“Marijuana does not cause brain damage. Our media does by creating fears, encouraging hate and then selling the remedy to the fears and hate the media creates.”
“Procrastination is suicide on the installment plan.”
“More than anything I have learned that we are all frail people, vulnerable and wounded; it is just that some of us are more clever at concealing it than others! And of course the great joke is that it is O.K. to be frail and wounded because that is the way the almighty transcendent God made people.”
“Some people insist they've never met a gay person. But Three Degrees of Jason Collins dictates that no NBA player can claim that anymore. Pro basketball is a family. And pretty much every family I know has a brother, sister or cousin who's gay. In the brotherhood of the NBA, I just happen to be the one who's out.”

Source : "Why NBA center Jason Collins is coming out now" by Jason Collins, www.si.com. April 29, 2013.

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