"There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for."

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Source : "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues,". Book by Tom Robbins, 1976.

Tom Robbins

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“When I started doing improvise music in Europe, in the beginning I thought the way that Europeans were interpreting the reconstruction of deconstruction of this thing that we call jazz - of course it's different than what Americans do, because Europeans have a different history, a different sensibility and so forth - the nature of the creative process itself it's the same; but what comes from that creative process is different, because you have a different history, you have a different society, different language.”

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“When a man declares: "I am sure of my wife," it means he is sure of his wife. But when a woman declares: "I am sure of my husband," it means that she is sure of herself.”
“The only way to maximize group creativityâ€”to make the whole more than the sum of its partsâ€”is to encourage a candid discussion of mistakes. In part, this is because the acceptance of error reduces cost. When you believe your flaws will be quickly corrected by the group, you're less worried about perfecting your contribution, which leads to a more candid conversation. We can only get it right when we talk about what we got wrong.”
“Instead of trying to produce a programme to simulate the adult mind, why not rather try to produce one which simulates the child's? If this were then subjected to an appropriate course of education one would obtain the adult brain.”
“The common growth of Mother Earth Suffices me,-her tears, her mirth, Her humblest mirth and tears.”
“Child support should do just that - support children, not the federal government.”
“Henceforth we will tackle our enemies that come face to face with us and we will not be stabbed in from behind by internal foes... To this end, we will arm the allies and comrades of the broad masses without giving respite to reactionaries, and avenge the blood of our comrades double - and triple - fold.”

Source : "Red Tears: War, Famine and Revolution in Ethiopia". Book by Dawit Wolde Giorgis, 1989.
“Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.”

Source : Henry Van Dyke (2007). “Counsels by the Way”, p.174, Wildside Press LLC

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