Normal is not something to aspire to, it’s something to get away from.
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| — | Jodie Foster |
Do not grow old, no matter how long you live. Never cease to stand like curious children before the Great Mystery into which we were born.
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| — | Albert Einstein |
Inside, we are ageless and when we talk to ourselves, it’s the same age of the person we were talking to when we were little. It’s the body that is changing around that ageless centre.
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| — | David Lynch |
Only dullards crippled into cretinism by a fear of being thought pretentious could be so dumb as to believe that there is a distinction between design and use, between form and function, between style and substance.
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| — | Stephen Fry writing a tribute to Steve Jobs |
What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.
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| — | Sylvia Plath |
Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities which he does not possess.
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| — | Samuel Johnson |
It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people’s minds.
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| — | Samuel Adams |
The man who has no tincture of philosophy goes through life imprisoned in the prejudices derived from common sense, from the habitual beliefs of his age or nation, and from convictions which have grown up in his mind without the co-operation or consent of his deliberate reason.
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| — | Bertrand Russell |
Language … has created the word “loneliness” to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word “solitude” to express the glory of being alone.
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| — | Paul Tillich |
