"No one gets angry at a mathematician or a physicist whom he or she doesn't understand, or at someone who speaks a foreign language, but rather at someone who tampers with your own language."

-- Jacques Derrida

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“LSD is a catalyst or amplifier of mental processes. If properly used it could become something like the microscope or telescope of psychiatry.”

Source : "LSD Psychotherapy". Book by Stanislav Grof, 1980.
“In all fairness to the auction companies ? most companies are not car experts, they are marketers. I caution buyers to make sure that they have done their homework before they raise their hand and not after.”
“What makes us human, I think, is an ability to ask questions, a consequence of our sophisticated spoken language.”
“Keep your eye on the prize and focus on your mission. Remember what youâ€™re trying to do, what yourÂ valueÂ is, why itâ€™s important, and at the same time, change course and direction. If the marketâ€™s telling you different things how are you going to adjust to that?”
“When I'm alone, I'm in the company of the most interesting dog I know.”

Source : John R. Erickson (1993). “The case of the vampire cat”, Viking Books
“I admire hard-bitten, wisecracking realism of Ida Lupino and the film noir heroines. I'm sick of simpering white girls with their princess fantasies.”
“Some of my characters are a mixture of various aspects of people I have met. others are pure invention.”
“Is there anything more dangerous to the cause of liberty than a politician fixated on re-election?”

Source : "Seymour Hersh: Man On Fire". Interview with Lakshmi Chaudhry, www.alternet.org. October 26, 2004.

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