"America is two Mack trucks colliding on a superhighway because all the drivers are on amphetamines."

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Source : Liner notes for compilation album "The Broadside Tapes 1" by Phil Ochs, 1989.

Phil Ochs

#Two Quotes #America Quotes #Amphetamines Quotes

“Myth and tool mutually constitute each other.”
“A truly great university is a nucleus of artistic expression. It fosters creative, critical thought, and serves as a platform for civil discourse.”

Source : "Of Leibovitz and Lear" by E. Gordon Gee, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 27, 2012.
“In the olden days, when wishing still worked, there lived a king whose daughters were all beautiful, but the youngest daughter was so lovely that even the sun... was struck with wonder.”
“Happiness is a state of mind, so the real source of happiness must lie within the mind, not in external conditions.”

Source : Geshe Kelsang Gyatso (2011). “Eight Steps to Happiness: The Buddhist Way of Loving Kindness”, p.17, Tharpa Publications US
“Navarette, a Chinese missionary, agrees with Leibniz and says that "It is the special providence of God that the Chinese did not know what was done in Christendom; for if they did, there would be never a man among them, but would spit in our faces.”
“People know that fame and position are pleasant, but they do not know that the pleasure of anonymity is most real. People know that hunger and cold are distressing, but they do not know that the distress of not experiencing cold or hunger is greater.”
“I was awful at science at school, as a subject, because I didn't have the discipline. But, I was awful at music, as well, and I loved music.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“We have a thriving subculture of 'independent' American movies that makes an impact on America as a whole roughly equivalent to that of a the modern literary novel. These are the films sincere viewers marry, whereas, once upon a time, movies were a lifetime of one night stands.”

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