"Any man who is attached to things of this world is one who lives in ignorance and is being consumed by the snakes of his own passions"

-- Black Elk

#Ignorance Quotes #Passion Quotes #Men Quotes

“Perhaps your own reiterated cries deafen you to the voice you hoped to hear”
“The worst, the hardest, the most disagreeable thing that you may have to do may be the thing that counts most, because it is the hard discipline, and it alone, that makes possible the highest efficiency.”
“That was the thing. You never got used to it, the idea of someone being gone. Just when you think it's reconciled, accepted, someone points it out to you, and it just hits you all over again, that shocking.”
“Man's greatest blunder has been in trying to make peace with the skies instead of making peace with his neighbors”
“I had a tumor in my left eye which killed the optic nerve, but it's my real eye. I just cannot see out of it.”
“A people may become great through many means, but there is only one measure by which its greatness is recognized and acknowledged. The final measure of the greatness of all peoples is the amount and standard of the literature and art they have produced.... No people that has produced great literature and art has ever been looked upon by the world as distinctly inferior.”
“The Patriot Act is the most egregious piece of legislation to ever leave Congress since the Alien and Sedition Acts, John Ashcroft and every member of Congress who voted for it should be indicted.”
“My parents always saw me as an artist, and that greatly influenced me”

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