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There have been two popular subjects for poetry in the last few decades: the Vietnam War and AIDS, about both of which almost all of us have felt deeply. ↗

— Thom Gunn

#aids #almost #been #both #decades

Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave. ↗

— G. I. Gurdjieff

#cannot #free #functions #govern #himself

Laughter relieves us of superfluous energy, which, if it remained unused, might become negative, that is, poison. Laughter is the antidote. ↗

— George Gurdjieff

#become #energy #laughter #might #negative

Great comforts do, indeed, bear witness to the truth of thy grace, but not to the degree of it; the weak child is oftener in the lap than the strong one. ↗

— William Gurnall

#child #comforts #degree #grace #great

There's a certain nostalgia and romance in a place you left. ↗

— David Guterson

#left #nostalgia #place #romance #you

Even though I may not intend it when I set out to write the book, these places just emerge as major players in what I'm doing, almost as if they are insisting on it. ↗

— David Guterson

#book #doing #emerge #even #i

The minimum we should hope for with any display technology is that it should do no harm. ↗

— Edward Tufte

#display #harm #hope #minimum #should

I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs. They all find their place in the world, but they all start off in the same place. I'm always painting and drawing as well, and it's an ongoing creative assignment. ↗

— P. J. Harvey

#assignment #become #being #creative #drawing

You get people talking about being worried about their art, and dances... their culture being wiped out or taken over, and yet these same people are taking advantage of their people to use them as cheap labour. ↗

— Arlo Guthrie

#advantage #art #being #cheap #culture

There is no distinctly American criminal class - except Congress. ↗

— Mark Twain

#class #congress #criminal #distinctly #except