Brion Gysin Quotes
Writers don't own their words. Since when do words belong to anybody. "Your very own words," indeed ! And who are you?
Brion Gysin
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Affairs go on, and all will take some shape or other, but it keeps one in hot water all the time.
Queen Victoria
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The idea that a pupil is a passive recipient, a container waiting to be filled by the teacher's knowledge and instruction - all this is nonsense. Teaching is a living relationship, of give and take, of mutual learning.
Yehudi Menuhin
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He had discharged his destiny; now, perhaps, he could begin to live.
Arthur C. Clarke
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Science is what we know, and philosophy is what we don't know.
Bertrand Russell
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The violence and injustice of the rulers of mankind is an ancient evil, for which, I am afraid, the nature of human affairs can scarce admit a remedy.
Adam Smith
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The whole Twitter phenomenon is really indicative of what's happening in this country. And I say this in condemnation of myself as much as anyone else - we are growing into a nation that has no time, desire or capacity for truth. All we can handle is 140 characters of knowledge.
Kurt Sutter
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A lot of the time, I was unhappy as a kid, so I spent it, I guess, in a gray place.
Archy Ivan Marshall
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Political revolutions aim to change political institutions in ways that those institutions themselves prohibit. Their success therefore necessitates the partial relinquishment of one set of institutions in favor of another, and in the interim, society is not fully governed by institutions at all
Thomas Kuhn
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This is going to sound really funny. I have a poster of Zac Efron on my wall! I think every girl has a poster of him in their room so, why not join the club!
Vanessa Hudgens
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During my three years in Vietnam, I certainly heard plenty of last words by dying American footsoldiers. Not one of them, however, had illusions that he had somehow accomplished something worthwhile in the process of making the Supreme Sacrifice.
Kurt Vonnegut
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Whate'er is well conceived is clearly said, And the words to say it flow with ease.
Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
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Writers don't own their words. Since when do words belong to anybody. "Your very own words," indeed ! And who are you?
Brion Gysin
