"If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism."

-- Hunter S. Thompson

#Past Quotes #Cells Quotes #Years Quotes

“Hastiness is the beginning of wrath, and its end repentance.”
“To own a bit of ground, to scratch it with a hoe, to plant seeds, and watch the renewal of life - this is the commonest delight of the race, the most satisfactory thing a man can do.”

Source : Charles Dudley Warner (2006). “My Summer in a Garden: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.1, ReadHowYouWant.com
“Being a successful person is not necessarily defined by what you have achieved, but by what you have overcome.”

Source : Fannie Flagg (2013). “The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion: A Novel”, p.335, Random House
“You don't like her, do you?" "Who, me? No, I love her dearly. Evil scheming ***** are my favorite kind of people." (Risa)”
“You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.”
“A long time ago, I made the commitment to dedicate at least one song per album to God. He has been very good to me, and never for one minute do I want Him to think I've forgotten, because I haven't.”
“The only thing binding individuals together is ideas. Ideas mutate and spread; they change their hosts as much as their hosts change them.”

Source : "Genesis". Book by Bernard Beckett, 2010.
“When the time comes to change a paradigm--to renounce one bedrock truth and adopt another--the artist and physicist are most likely to be in the forefront.”

Source : Leonard Shlain (1991). “Art and Physics: Parallel Visions in Space, Time, and Light”, William Morrow & Company

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