"Saudi Arabia is a puritanical state that claims a monopoly of wisdom and virtue."

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James Buchan

#Arabia Quotes #Virtue Quotes #States Quotes

“I didnt start really making changes in my life until I was actually in my mid-20s. And all of a sudden I was like, wait a minute. I was trying so hard to be what I thought I was supposed to be, instead of just allowing myself to be what I-what I was or what I am.”
“John Burroughs has stated that experimental study of animals in captivity is absolutely useless. Their character, their habits, their appetites undergo a complete transformation when torn from their soil in field and forest. With human nature caged in a narrow space, whipped daily into submission, how can we speak of its potentialities?”

Source : Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.34, 谷月社
“Anyone can stay the same. It takes courage to change”

Source : FaceBook post by John Assaraf from Aug 22, 2013
“I will not be "famous," "great." I will go on adventuring, changing, opening my mind and my eyes, refusing to be stamped and stereotyped. The thing is to free one's self: to let it find its dimensions, not be impeded.”
“A willing mind makes a hard journey easy.”

Source : Philip Massinger (1779). “The Dramatick Works of Philip Massinger...”, p.88
“Even granting that the genius subjected to the test of critical inspection emerges free from all error, we should consider that everything he has discovered in a given domain is almost nothing in comparison with what is left to be discovered.”
“I am gonna write poems til i die and when i have gotten outta this body i am gonna hang round in the wind and knock over everybody who got their feet on the ground.”
“I still like going on the road and performing, but it's getting tougher. I try to have my wife and the twins with me but it's getting harder and harder for them. They need to be in a home environment and not traveling with me.”

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