"He doesn't know which is worse, a past he can't regain or a present that will destroy him if he looks at it too clearly. Then there's the future. Sheer vertigo."

-- Margaret Atwood

#Past Quotes #Looks Quotes #Vertigo Quotes

“I'm studying Kabbalah, which is really the essence of Jewish spirituality.”
“The governing idea of Hellenism is spontaneity of consciousness ; that of Hebraism, strictness of conscience .”
“Knowledge of the means to express our emotion is essential- and is acquired only after a very long experience.”
“The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.”
“And just because you have colleges and universities doesn't mean you have education.”
“The Council on Foreign Relations is "the establishment." Not only does it have influence and power in key decision-making positions at the highest levels of government to apply pressure from above, but it also announces and uses individuals and groups to bring pressure from below, to justify the high level decisions for converting the U.S. from a sovereign Constitutional Republic into a servile member state of a one-world dictatorship.”
“Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.”
“Roy Orbison was the only act that The Beatles didn't want to follow.”

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