"Our willingness to suffer for the sake of the perception of freedom is remarkable."

-- Jaron Lanier

#Perception Quotes #Suffering Quotes #Sake Quotes

“A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.”
“All dope can do for you is kill you... the long hard way. And it can kill the people you love right along with you.”
“I think the Democratic Party has the chronic problem of appearing to be weak, of not standing and fighting for what it believes in, not fighting for its own.”
“With the way I dress, I think my personality shows, so I don't always have to talk. Someone can see what I'm wearing, see what socks I'm wearing, and see what my vibe is, what kind of person I am”
“Between the two men, somewhere, a truth is lying, and that is what I try to find.”

Source : "Conductors on Record". Book by John L. Holmes, pp. 256-261, 1988.
“Sport is where an entire life can be compressed into a few hours, where the emotions of a lifetime can be felt on an acre or two of ground, where a person can suffer and die and rise again on six miles of trails through a New York City park. Sport is a theater where sinner can turn saint and a common man become an uncommon hero, where the past and the future can fuse with the present. Sport is singularly able to give us peak experiences where we feel completely one with the world and transcend all conflicts as we finally become our own potential.”
“The older I get, the more I see that there really aren't huge zeniths of happiness or a huge abyss of darkness as much as there used to be. I tend to walk a middle ground”
“Disinformation, in order to be effective, must be 90% accurate.”

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