#not

For men, as they get bogged down with responsibilities, commitments, bureaucracy, it is a fantasy just to think of shedding everything literally, walking away with nothing at all, and just hitting the road. ↗

— Lee Child

#bogged #bureaucracy #commitments #down #everything

The planet does nothing but support us, and we are constantly committing crimes against nature. ↗

— Daphne Zuniga

#committing #constantly #crimes #does #nature

I thought I was so ugly for so long, and I wasted so much of my life on this dumb notion. ↗

— Margaret Cho

#i #life #long #much #my life

Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile! ↗

— Og Mandino

#die #forever #go #live #mile

Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself. ↗

— John Updike

#could #enough #four #given #had

And I'm as attached to my wife as anybody can be to another human being. ↗

— Eric Roberts

#anybody #attached #being #human #human being

The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#ends #fear #hate #how #lies

Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#idiotic #notion #pure #totalitarian #very

The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#barriers #coercion #given #history #human

Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life. ↗

— John Updike

#get #ignore #jobs #life #nothingness