"Human nature must not be altered in order to have a problem-free world. Man is not just a problem-solving being, as behaviorists would wish us to believe, but a problem-recognizing and -accepting being."

-- Allan Bloom

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“Reduce intellectual and emotional noise until you arrive at the silence of yourself and listen to it.”

Source : Richard Brautigan (1989). “Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America, The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster, and In Watermelon Sugar”, p.150, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“She regarded books as the emblems of secret brotherhood. A man with this sort of library couldn't possibly hurt her.”
“Adrien, people get killed all the time. Since when is it your job to find out what happened to them?" "I'm not usually suspected of murdering them." "You have been as long as I've known you.”
“The superior man is intelligently, not blindly, faithful.”
“Mature love is not a surrender of the self but a surrender to the self. The ego surrenders its hegemony of the personality to the heart, but in this surrender it is not annihilated. Rather it is strengthened because its roots in the body are nourished by the joy that the body feels.”

Source : Alexander Lowen (1995). “Joy: The Surrender to the Body and to Life”, p.112, Penguin
“He who wishes to serve his country must have not only the power to think, but the will to act”
“It angers me when sustainability gets used as a buzz word. For 90 percent of the world, sustainability is a matter of survival.”

Source : "Quotes of the day: Cameron Sinclair". www.cnn.com. July 11, 2008.
“As long as I'm around the cats in the hip hop scene, they'll throw me a track and I'll write a rap over it.”

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