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		How thin and insecure is that little beach of white sand we call consciousness. I've always known that in my writing it is the dark troubled sea of which I know nothing, save its presence, that carried me. I've always felt that creating was a fearless and a timid, a despairing and hopeful, launching out into that unknown.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Athol Fugard 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		With brain and body, it's great if you have a connection between the two, but when separated, that leads to a lot of conflict. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Adam Driver 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles - the oppression of tyranny - to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Abraham Lincoln 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I'm just so grateful for the 10 years that I had in Sri Lanka when it was in the middle of a war and I was getting shot at, because now and again I remember glimpses of those times, and I just go, 'Wow, I'll never, ever see that again in my life. And I'm never gonna feel that, and I'm never gonna feel for a human being like that.' 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				M.I.A. 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Some friends are better shots than are casual enemies. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Eddie Rickenbacker 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		This country-right-or-wrong business is getting a little out-of-date.. History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ian Fleming 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The ideas and practices of Franz Anton Mesmer, an 18th-century Australian healer, had spread to the United States and, by the 1840s, held the country in thrall. Mesmer proposed that everything in the universe, including the human body, was governed by a 'magnetic fluid' that could become imbalanced, causing illness. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Karen Abbott 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		I'm just drawing it now. It's totally revolting. I'm sure you'll love it. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Eddie Campbell 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Knee-deep in the cosmic overwhelm, I’m stricken by the ricochet wonder of it all: the plain everythingness of everything, in cahoots with the everythingness of everything else. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Diane Ackerman 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		When I first started writing music, it was to express that. I was trying to find God and trying to find meaning in my life. That's what my music was about. It wasn't to entertain. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Mat Kearney 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I've been kind of submerged in my own little geographic location for a really long time in Venice Beach. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Amber Tamblyn 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		When you give everyone a voice and give people power, the system usually ends up in a really good place. So, what we view our role as, is giving people that power. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Mark Zuckerberg 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		How thin and insecure is that little beach of white sand we call consciousness. I've always known that in my writing it is the dark troubled sea of which I know nothing, save its presence, that carried me. I've always felt that creating was a fearless and a timid, a despairing and hopeful, launching out into that unknown. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Athol Fugard