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		Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a generation, drowned in mortification, felt such a rage to live.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Raoul Vaneigem 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		In the visual arts, particularly painting, I distrust all those abstractions, those artificial constructions. I have a very simple way of judging them: if I can do them, they are not art. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				F. Sionil Jose 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Our concerns sink into insignificance when compared with the eternal value of human personality - a potential child of God which is destined to triumph over lie, pain, and death. No one can take this sublime meaning of life away from us, and this is the one thing that matters. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Igor Sikorsky 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Feminism has had exactly the same problem that "political correctness" has had: people keep using the phrase without really knowing what it means. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Caitlin Moran 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		From the moment of birth, when the Stone-Age baby confronts the twentieth-century mother, the baby is subjected to these forces of violence called love, as its father and mother and their parents and their parents before them, have been. These forces are mainly concerned with destroying most of its potential. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				R. D. Laing 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Prostitutes are in no danger of finding their present life so satisfactory that they cannot turn to God: the proud, the avaricious, the self-righteous, are in that danger. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				C. S. Lewis 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		My old father used to have a saying: If you make a bad bargain, hug it all the tighter. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Abraham Lincoln 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		Learning is the beginning of wealth. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins. The great breakthrough in your life comes when you realize it that you can learn anything you need to learn to accomplish any goal that you set for yourself. This means there are no limits on what you can be, have or do. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Alfred Einstein 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		If ever there was a book calculated to make a man in love with its author, this appears to me to be the book. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				William Godwin 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		After leaving Evanescence, I dealt with a lot of sh--, then being diagnosed as bipolar, and my heavy drug use and rehab ... this record went through all that with me, so making it was a complete catharsis, ... I'm focusing on me and getting the unhealthy things out of my life, which isn't always an easy thing to do, but that's been my main focus right now. I'm still on a journey, you know, but I'm a lot happier now. I can sleep easier. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ben Moody 
			 
			
				Evanescence  
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		There is no easy way from the earth to the stars. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Seneca the Younger 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Every generation always thinks it was better before, and I think people have been saying this for probably thousands of years. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Paul Auster 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Our job is obvious: we need to get out of the way, shine a light, and empower a new generation to teach itself and to go further and faster than any generation ever has. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Seth Godin