"You cannot eat your cake and have it."

“We've all got stardust in our bones...”

Source : Song: Get It Like You Like It, Album: Both Sides of the Gun
“Human cultures are all experiments in trying to find a form that will fit the matter of our immediacy; but it is absolutely not the case that all such experiments are of equal merit or value. Some cultures - and modernity is patently one - have managed to transmute consciousness into the "disease" that Nietzsche called it, the self-affliction of a self-centeredness that has purged itself of all vestiges of wisdom and value.”
“At that time the archiepiscopal throne of Alexandria was filled by Theophilus, the perpetual enemy of peace and virtue; a bold, bad man, whose hands were alternately polluted with gold and with blood.”
“A little group of wise hearts is better than a wilderness full of fools.”
“Sometimes I would make myself very still and try to imagine myself dead. I tried to invoke the feeling of the very last breath I would take.”

Source : Peggy Lipton, Coco Dalton (2007). “Breathing Out”, p.35, Macmillan
“Stand-up is not something that you're good at right away. You have to do it a ton. But, I think I got to shave a year off because I didn't have to get over stage fright.”
“Pareto's Principle: you generally spend 80% of your time on 20% of the project.”
“A majority of the crime in the downtown is property crime. There have been a few larcenies and burglaries, but robberies and assaults are not common in the downtown. There isn't usually any violent crime.”

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