"When you make education less free you make people that way too" - Nicole on NYPL closures
"But I would argue that everything we eat, everything we drink, all this processed food, all the pesticides that contaminate everything in our highly technological, artificial life---it all adds up. In other words, modern society has invented so many ways to poison us that a few extra gamma rays get lost in the noise of our dying." - Tim Mousseau in "Life in the zone: What we're still learning from Chernobyl" by Steve Featherstone in Harpers June 2011
"See what scourge is laid upon your hate, / that heaven finds means to kill your joys with love" - Prince from Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet"
"The problem in this case was you just can't be middle-aged in America without something being wrong with you. People can't conceive of a virtue in someone else that they can't conceive in themselves. Instead of believing you're stronger, it's so much easier to imagine you're weaker. You're addicted to self-abuse. You're a liar. People are always ready to believe the opposite of what you tell them." Tender Branson in Chuck Palahniuk's Survivor
Good Quotations
"The universal doctrine teaches that all the visible structures of the world--all things and beings--are the effects of a ubiquitous power out of which they rise, which supports and fills them during the period of their manifestation, and back into which they must ultimately dissolve. This is the power known to science as energy, to the Melanesians as mana, to the Sioux Indians as wakonda, the Hindus as shakti, and the Christians as the power of God. Its manifestation in the psyche is termed, by the psychoanalysts, libido. And its manifestation in the cosmos is the structure and flux of the universe itself." Joseph Campbell in "The Hero with a Thousand Faces", pg 239
"The meaning [of myth] is very clear; it is the meaning of all religious practice. The individual, through prolonged psychological disciplines, gives up completely all attachment to his personal limitations, idiosyncrasies, hopes and fears, no longer resists the self-annihilation that is prerequisite to rebirth in the realization of truth, and so becomes ripe, at last, for the great at-one-ment. His personal ambitions being totally dissolved, he no longer tries to live but willingly relaxes to whatever may come to pass in him; he becomes, that is to say, an anonymity. The Law lives in him with his unreserved consent." Joseph Campbell in "The Hero with a Thousand Faces", pg 220
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