"What is it that makes a person insist passionately on the existence of metaphysical realities that can be neither demonstrated nor refuted? (176)"

-- Stephen Batchelor

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“I think they named the orange before the carrot.”
“Never love a wild thing, Mr. Bell,â€™ Holly advised him. â€˜That was Docâ€™s mistake. He was always lugging home wild things. A hawk with a hurt wing. One time it was a full-grown bobcat with a broken leg. But you canâ€™t give your heart to a wild thing; the more you do, the stronger they get. Until theyâ€™re strong enough to run into the woods. Or fly into a tree. Then a taller tree. Then the sky. Thatâ€™s how youâ€™ll end up Mr. Bell. If you let yourself love a wild thing. Youâ€™ll end up looking at the sky.”
“When trees mature, it is fair and moral that they are cut for man's use, as they would soon decay and return to the earth. Trees have a yearning to live again, perhaps to provide the beauty, strength and utility to serve man, even to become an object of great artistic worth.”
“There is no change without sacrifice.”
“Today is the first day of the rest of your life, and if you screw that up, you can start again tomorrow.”
“Scars remind me of just how far that I've come.”

Source : Song: Gypsy, Album: She Wolf, 2009
“I would drive through the desert, and there's this one spot in the desert that, every time I drove through it, I would get crazy ideas. I would either sing into the cell phone recorder or I would sing into a DAT machine.”
“No intelligent man believes that anybody ever willingly errs or willingly does base and evil deeds; they are well aware that all who do base and evil things do them unwillingly.”

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