"At this point, if I were to psychoanalyze myself, I'd have to say I am a clown, cleverly disguised as a regular person."

-- Tim Duncan

#Clown Quotes #Persons Quotes

“When a human being takes his life in depression, this is a natural death of spiritual causes. The modern barbarity of 'saving' the suicidal is based on a hair-raising misapprehension of the nature of existence.”

Source : "The Last Messiah". Essay by Peter Wessel Zapffe, 1933.
“...how can we live in the richest, most privileged country in the world, at the peak of its economic performance, and still hear the Republicans, and too many Democrats, that we cannot afford to provide a good education for every child, that we cannot afford to provide health security for all our citizens?”

Source : Paul Wellstone (2001). “The Conscience of a Liberal: Reclaiming the Compassionate Agenda”, p.7, Random House
“If you have faith, you can do what others can't do, because you can see what others can't see.”
“A man screaming is not a dancing bear. Life is not a spectacle.”
“Now the standard cure for one who is sunk is to consider those in actual destitution or physical sufferingâ€”this is an all-weather beatitude for gloom in general and fairly salutary day-time advice for everyone. But at three oâ€™clock in the morning, a forgotten package has the same tragic importance as a death sentence, and the cure doesnâ€™t workâ€”and in a real dark night of the soul it is always three oâ€™clock in the morning, day after day.”
“Physicists and astronomers see their own implications in the world being round, but to me it means that only one-third of the world is asleep at any given time and the other two-thirds is up to something.”

Source : Speech to American Bar Association, Atlanta, Ga., 22 Oct. 1964
“This is what is meant by "sacrifice", literally, the "making sacred" of an animal consumed for dinner. Yet sacrfice, because it dwells on the death, is a concept often shocking to the secular modern Western mind - to people who calmly organize daily hecatombs of beasts, and who are among the most death-dealing carnivores the world has ever seen.”
“Christianity had ceased to be the creed of the poor. He spoke with pompous exaggeration. Whether man were the best or the worst of created beings.”

Source : Georg Ebers “The Historical Romances of Georg Ebers”, Library of Alexandria

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