#sm

Liberalism, on the other hand, regards life as an adventure in which we must take risks in new situations, in which there is no guarantee that the new will always be the good or the true, in which progress is a precarious achievement rather than inevitability. ↗

— Morris Raphael Cohen

#adventure #always #good #guarantee #hand

I think there is a way to be formal and elegant and classy, but more modern. Brad Pitt has been changing it, and Will Smith has been doing it in his own way. ↗

— Steven Cojocaru

#brad #brad pitt #changing #classy #doing

I spent my first two years at a small all-male college in Virginia called Hampden-Sydney. That was like going to college 120 years ago. The languages, a year of rhetoric, all of the great books, Western Man courses, stuff like that. ↗

— Stephen Colbert

#books #called #college #courses #first

Successful people recognize crisis as a time for change - from lesser to greater, smaller to bigger. ↗

— Edwin Louis Cole

#change #crisis #greater #lesser #people

I was street smart, but unfortunately the street was Rodeo Drive. ↗

— Carrie Fisher

#i #rodeo #smart #street #unfortunately

My mother's career was over at 40 but she was still trying to be everyone's buddy, always smiling for the cameras. ↗

— Carrie Fisher

#buddy #cameras #career #everyone #mother

Something that once had importance might be forgotten by most people but because millions of people once knew it, a force is present that can be harnessed. There might be so much significance attached to a song, for example, or a fact, that it can’t die but only lies dormant, like a vampire in his coffin, waiting to be called forth from the grave once again. There is more magic in the fact that the first mass worldwide photo of the Church of Satan was taken by Joe Rosenthal – the same man who took the most famous news photo in history – the flag-raising at Iwo Jima. There’s real occult significance to that – much more than in memorizing grimoires and witches’ alphabets. People ask me about what music to use in rituals – what is the best occult music. I’ve instructed people to go to the most uncrowded section of the music store and it’s a guarantee what you’ll find there will be occult music. That’s the power of long-lost trivia. I get irritated by people who turn up their noses and whine ‘Why would anyone want to know that?’ Because once upon a time, everyone in America knew it. Suppose there’s a repository of neglected energy, that’s been generated and forgotten. Maybe it’s like a pressure cooker all this time, just waiting for someone to trigger its release. ‘Here I am,’ it beckons, ‘I have all this energy stored up just waiting for you – all you have to do is unlock the door. Because of man’s stupidity, he’s neglected me to this state of somnambulism – dreaming the ancient dreams – even though I was once so important to him.’ Think about that. A song that was once on millions of lips now is only on your lips. Now what does that contain? Those vibrations of that particular tune, what do they evoke, call up? What do they unlock? The old gods lie dormant, waiting. ↗

— Anton Szandor LaVey

#iwo-jima #joe-rosenthal #magic #occult #satanism

Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking. ↗

— Nat King Cole

#i #i can #me #people #smoking

I would like to say that what Mel Phillips was doing was not sexual harassment but more sexual abuse of children, because he was doing it in a sexual manner now that I look back on it. ↗

— Tom Cole

#back #because #children #doing #harassment

A child's learning is a function more of the characteristics of his classmates than those of the teacher. ↗

— James S. Coleman

#characteristics #child #classmates #function #his