"You can be amazing, you can turn a phrase into a weapon or a drug"

-- Sara Bareilles

#Drug Quotes #Weapons Quotes #Phrases Quotes

“While he bore no real resemblance to anyone in my family, his features were a collection of my mother's and father's best attributes, with a few of Gregory Peck's thrown in.”

Source : Lisa Lutz (2011). “Lisa Lutz Spellman Series E-Book Box Set: The Spellman Files, Curse of the Spellmans, Revenge of the Spellmans, The Spellmans Strike Again”, p.18, Simon and Schuster
“The problem of education in a democratic society is to do away with ... dualism and to construct a course of studies which makes thought a guide of free practice for all and which makes leisure a reward of accepting responsibility for service, rather than a state of exemption from it.”
“Culture gives us each a sense that life has meaning and that we have value - by offering us assurances of immortality. Either literally, through the heavens, the soul's afterlives or reincarnation, or by the prospect that some vestige of ourselves will persist over time - from having kids, amassing great fortunes or producing great works of art or science. Yet no culturally constructed symbolic belief system is ever powerful enough to completely eradicate the anxiety that is engendered by the awareness of death.”
“To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while. Your children need your presence more than your presents.”
“The ghost is the outward and visible signs of an inward fear.”
“Impulse arrested spills over, and the flood is feeling, the flood is passion, the flood is even madness.”
“There are only so many ways to experience pain. There are an almost limitless number of ways to inflict it, but the pain itself, initially vividly distinct in all its specifications, becomes, inevitably, just pain.”

Source : Neil Strauss (2011). “The Game”, p.282, Canongate Books
“I believe it also says that I am a friend to everyone and enemy to no one.”

Source : Source: www.ebony.com

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