"The experience of love and the experience of death destroy the illusion of our self-sufficiency. The two are closely connected, and to become fully human we must experience both of them."

-- David Steindl-Rast

#Self Quotes #Two Quotes #Experience Quotes

“No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortured a pagan, a heretic, or an unbeliever.”
“Collect adventures and experiences to reminisce aboutâ€¦go to far places, meet new people, eat exotic foods, enjoy all varieties of women, look on unfamiliar landscapes, see new things.”

Source : Gary Jennings (2016). “Aztec”, p.324, Macmillan
“Cheerfulness can change misfortune into love and friends.”
“Instead of using this space to pretend the newly released CIA 'torture' report confirms that the United States is the most evil nation in the history of the universe, I'm going to address Jonathan Gruber's confirmation that he believes we're all stupid.”

Source : "The Future of Cuba". Interview with Lasonas Pipinis Velasco, www.counterpunch.org. February 27, 2015.
“People like Chris Nolan are shooting isolated sequences in IMAX. Those cameras are the size of a Volkswagen.”
“It's quite nice when you've been generally dissed about your irrelevancy and then suddenly have people coming on bended knee and saying we need you to come back.”
“War is just a racket... I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else.”

Source : Major General Smedley Butler's speech, 1933.
“Putting your name on something and having no idea how it came about if someone else did all the work - that's not me.”

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