"It's like a convent, the hospital. You leave the world behind and take vows of poverty, chastity, obedience."

-- Carolyn Wheat

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“Our bodily eye findeth never an end, but is vanquished by the immensity of space.”
“I've learned through experience that life is never that bad. The secret is just paying attention to how you feel and not letting anyone else dictate what in your heart you know is right.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I walked until midnight in the storm, then I went home and took a sauna for an hour and a half. It was all clear. I listened to my heart and saw if there were any signs of my destiny in the sky, and there were none â€” there were just snowflakes.”
“An expert is a damn fool a long way from home.”
“YOU NEED BOTH QUALITY AND RESULTS. RESULTS WITHOUT QUALITY IS BORING; QUALITY WITHOUT RESULTS IS MEANINGLESS.”
“And to me, if you really want to rediscover wonder, you need to step outside of that tiny, terrified space of rightness and look around at each other and look out at the vastness and complexity and mystery of the universe and be able to say, â€œWow, I don't know. Maybe I'm wrong.”
“The bullshitter is neither on the side of the true or the side of the false. His eye is not on the facts at all. He does not reject the authority of the truth, as the liar does, and oppose himself to it. He pays no attention to it at all. By virtue of this, bullshit is a greater enemy of the truth than lies are.”

Source : Harry G. Frankfurt (2009). “On Bullshit”, Princeton University Press
“In U.S. history, war has served as an important diversionary tactic, causing the people at large to shift their attention away from the state's own criminality and toward real or fictitious devils abroad. Wars have therefore proved to be extremely useful in propping up the political class and preserving it from the public resistance and rebellion that might otherwise have arisen.”

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