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I am neither a child, a young man, nor an ancient; nor am I of any caste. ↗

— Guru Nanak

#ancient #any #caste #child #i

That one plant should be sown and another be produced cannot happen; whatever seed is sown, a plant of that kind even comes forth. ↗

— Guru Nanak

#cannot #comes #even #forth #happen

In my previous life I was a civil attorney. At one point I truly believed that was what I wanted to be- but that was before I'd been handed a fistful of crushed violets from a toddler. Before I understood that the smile of a child is a tattoo: indelible art. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#art

I couldn't claim that I have never felt the urge to explore evil, but when you descend into hell you have to be very careful. ↗

— Kathleen Raine

#claim #descend #evil #explore #felt

All of a sudden, those few pages of script that he had shown me with the weird images I could visualize all of that in my brain, and I knew that there was this mad little genius at work here and I really wanted to do the film. ↗

— Jack Nance

#could #few #film #genius #had

But Eraserhead was the first real intense kind of thing I had ever done before the cameras and Lynch had to really bring me down a lot and he still does. ↗

— Jack Nance

#bring #cameras #does #done #down

To sum it all up: It was a great picture to do; I just wish it had never been released. ↗

— Jack Nance

#great #had #i #just #never

Albanians are a nation of freedom fighters who know something about living under oppression. ↗

— Fatos Nano

#albanians #fighters #freedom #know #living

Thus, neither my government nor myself, personally, are without ideals and responsibilities. ↗

— Fatos Nano

#ideals #myself #neither #nor #personally

Each of us has interests which conflict the interests of everybody else... 'everybody else' we call 'society'. It's a powerful opponent and it always wins. Oh, here and there an individual prevails for a while and gets what he wants. Sometimes he storms the culture of a society and changes it to his own advantage. But society wins in the long run, for it has the advantage of numbers and of age. ↗

— B.F. Skinner

#interests #society #age