"Even if nonpolluting power were feasible and abundant, the use of energy on a massive scale acts on society like a drug that is physically harmless but psychically enslaving. A community can choose between Methadone and "cold turkey"-between maintaining its addiction to alien energy and kicking it in painful cramps-but no society can have a population that is hooked on progressively larger numbers of energy slaves and whose members are also autonomously active."

-- Ivan Illich

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“American television is very much created by the writers, just the volume of it. The writers are so key. You're just trying to do something that serves that script. And in general, film isn't all about the script, really.”
“Perhaps God gives us a hint about whom God favors through physical and material prosperity. So those who are doing well are probably favored by God.”

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“The biggest thing I learned from losing? Winning's better.”
“A minute to smile and an hour to weep in, A pint of joy to a peck of trouble, And never a laugh but the moans come double; And that is life!”

Source : Paul Laurence Dunbar, Joanne M. Braxton (1993). “The Collected Poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar”, p.8, University of Virginia Press
“The physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick.”
“When I wake you're never there, but when I sleep you're everywhere.”

Source : Song: Everywhere
“My best investment is my imagination because it has never failed to bring me my greatest return.”

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