"Society will develop a new kind of servitude which covers the surface of society with a network of complicated rules, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate. It does not tyrannise but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd."

-- Alexis de Tocqueville

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“Have you ever had a moment where you finish a piece, and then all of a sudden the piece sort of takes on it's own life beyond you? It doesn't happen every time, but there are some pieces where that happens, and I love that. I feel like that's what I'm seeking nowadays, that moment of transcendence with a piece. Where this thing becomes larger than me as a person. It becomes otherworldly, and then I get separated as maker from it, and then it has it's own life. I love that.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Ideally, you should be your own hero, just as I am mine.”
“When awful darkness and silence reign Over the great Gromboolian plain, Through the long, long wintry nights;”

Source : 'The Dong with a Luminous Nose' (1871)
“I think of myself as a girl from Brooklyn.”
“I believe in freedom Freedom's apparently all I need But who's ever been free in this world? Who has never had to bleed in this world?”
“We are so engrossed with the objects, or appearances revealed by the light, that we pay no attention to the light.”

Source : A. Devaraja Mudaliar, Maharshi Ramana (1968). “Day by Day with Bhagavan: From a Diary of A. Devaraja Mudaliar, Covering March 16, 1945 to January 4, 1947”
“There is nothing more marvelous than doing something you love to do and getting paid for it. It ceases to become work, money, and effort; and it becomes fun, your expression of the joy of life.”
“You have to discover when you're inadequate to be funny and you don't know you're inadequate when you're a kid.”

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