#ay

The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#avoid #being #close #count #nothing

Let your dreams be as litmitless as the circumference of the entire universe. The police service does not prosecute people who over-dream. Never nail yourself to the narrow cross. Dream big! ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#dream #dream-big #dreaming #dreams #extra-mile

Never get into an argument with a schizophrenic person and say, "Who do you think you are?" ↗

— Ray Combs

#get #into #never #person #say

You know, I've done this show for six years, and this could be the first time that I had a person that actually got no points, and I think it's a damn fine way to go out. I thought I was a loser until you walked up here; you made me feel like a man. ↗

— Ray Combs

#be the first #could #damn #done #feel

Censorship always defeats it own purpose, for it creates in the end the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion. ↗

— Henry Steele Commager

#censorship #creates #defeats #discretion #end

The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion. ↗

— Henry Steele Commager

#censorship #creates #defeats #discretion #end

If you ask what you are going to do about global warming, the only rational answer is to change the way in which we do transportation, energy production, agriculture and a good deal of manufacturing. The problem originates in human activity in the form of the production of goods. ↗

— Barry Commoner

#activity #agriculture #answer #ask #change

Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it. ↗

— Barry Commoner

#action #american #american people #day #earth

The most meaningful engine of change, powerful enough to confront corporate power, may be not so much environmental quality, as the economic development and growth associated with the effort to improve it. ↗

— Barry Commoner

#change #confront #corporate #development #economic

That I can't relate to today's music or morals doesn't make either necessarily bad. Just different. I leave the judgements to others. ↗

— Perry Como

#different #either #i #judgements #just