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44th President of the United States of America 1961

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Irish writer and poet 1854–1900

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“It is characteristic of the technocracy to render itself invisible.”

Theodore Roszak (1933–2011) American social historian, social critic, writer

Its assumptions about reality and its values become as unobtrusively pervasive as the air we breathe. ...the technocracy increases and consolidates its power... following the dictates of industrial efficiency, rationality, and necessity. ...the technocracy assumes a position similar to that of the purely neutral umpire in an athletic contest. ...we tend to ignore the man ...Yet ...he alone sets the limits and goals of the competition and judges the contenders.

“In the past we believed both sexes were born with original sin. Today, we have come to unconsciously believe in the original sin of boys, but the original innocence of girls.”

Warren Farrell (1943) author, spokesperson, expert witness, political candidate

page 103.
Father and Child Reunion (2001)

“God does not play dice with the universe.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

Source: The Born-Einstein Letters 1916-55

“For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love.”

John Donne The Canonization

The Canonization, stanza 1

“Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes.”

George Orwell book 1984

Source: 1984

“Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria.”

Naomi Wolf book The Beauty Myth

Source: The Beauty Myth (1991), Chapter 7 : 'Violence', p. 254

“Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself.”

Clive Staples Lewis book The Problem of Pain

The Problem of Pain (1940)

“Pain is the opposite of strength, and so is anger.”

Marcus Aurelius book Meditations

Hays translation
XI, 18
Meditations (c. AD 121–180), Book XI

“If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgement of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgement now.”

Marcus Aurelius book Meditations

Variant: If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
Source: Meditations

“I don't trust or love anyone. Because people are all creepy. Creepy creepy creeps. Creeping around. Creeping here and creeping there. Creeping everywhere. Crippity crappity creepies.”

Vincent Gallo (1961) American film director, writer, model, actor and musician

Grand Royal Interview

“The ecological teaching of the Bible is simply inescapable: God made the world because He wanted it made. He thinks the world is good, and He loves it. It is His world; He has never relinquished title to it. And He has never revoked the conditions, bearing on His gift to us of the use of it, that oblige us to take excellent care of it.”

Wendell Berry (1934) author

"God and Country".
What Are People For? (1990)

“Yesterday's clarity is today's stupidity
The universe has dark and light, entrust oneself to change”

Ikkyu (1394–1481) Japanese Buddhist monk

As quoted in Ikkyū and The Crazy Cloud Anthology : A Zen Poet of Medieval Japan (1986) by Sonja Arntzen.
Context: Natural, reckless, correct skill;
Yesterday's clarity is today's stupidity
The universe has dark and light, entrust oneself to change
One time, shade the eyes and gaze afar at the road of heaven.

“We must fight against tax evasion but also defend the rights of tax evaders, or companies that make mistakes”

Silvio Berlusconi (1936) Italian politician

As quoted in "Did I say This? in The Observer (20 April 2008) http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/apr/20/italy <br class="br">2006

“Just because you are happy it does not mean that the day is perfect but that you have looked beyond its imperfections”

Bob Marley (1945–1981) Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician

“Every one of us is marvellous and complicated and interesting and gorgeous just as we are.”

Alan Watts (1915–1973) British philosopher, writer and speaker

Source: Out of Your Mind: Tricksters, Interdependence, and the Cosmic Game of Hide-and-Seek (2017), p. 42
Context: Have you really looked at a seashell? There's not an aesthetic fault in it anywhere - it's absolutely perfect. Now, do you think that shells look at each other and critique each other's appearance? "Well, your markings are a little crooked and not very well spaced." Of course not, but that's what we do. Every one of us is marvellous and complicated and interesting and gorgeous just as we are. Really take a look at another person's eyes. They are jewelry beyond compare - just beautiful!

“This is the real secret of life — to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.”

Alan Watts (1915–1973) British philosopher, writer and speaker

“No amount of anxiety makes any difference to anything that is going to happen.”

Alan Watts (1915–1973) British philosopher, writer and speaker