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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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“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

“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

“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

“I am writing graffiti on your body.
I am drawing the story of how hard we tried.”

Ani DiFranco (1970) musician and activist

Both Hands
Song lyrics

“On Tuesday I went around San Francisco dressed in overalls designating large parts of it as legal graffiti areas.”

Banksy pseudonymous England-based graffiti artist, political activist, and painter

Existencilism (2002)

“An intelligent society would have made of them people like everybody else!”

Ravachol (1859–1892) French anarchist

Une société intelligente en aurait fait des gens comme tout le monde!
Trial statement

“We call reality
to madness that remains
and madness to reality that vanishes”

Jorge Majfud (1969) Uruguayan-American writer

La ciudad de la Luna (2009)

“Judas' is a metaphor and an analogy about forgiveness and betrayal and things that haunt you in your life, and how I believe that it's the darkness in your life that ultimately shines and illuminates the greater light that you have upon you. … Someone once said to me, 'If you have no shadows then you're not standing in the light.' So the song is about washing the feet of both good and evil, and understanding and forgiving the demons from your past in order to move into the greatness of your future … I just like really aggressive metaphors — harder, thicker, darker — and my fans do as well. So it is a very challenging and aggressive metaphor, but it is a metaphor.”

Lady Gaga (1986) American singer, songwriter, and actress

Lady Gaga Says 'Judas' Video 'Celebrates Faith' in MTV News (26 Apr 26 2011) http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1662707/lady-gaga-judas-music-video.jhtml.

“Meditate upon the Knowledge and Bliss Eternal, and you will also have bliss.”

Ramakrishna (1836–1886) Indian mystic and religious preacher

As quoted in Hindu Psychology : Its Meaning for the West (1946) by Swami Akhilananda, p. 204
Variant translation: Meditate upon the Knowledge and Bliss Eternal, and you also will have bliss. Bliss indeed is eternal, only it is covered and obscured by ignorance. The less your attachment is to the senses, the more will be your love to God.
Saying 806, in Teachings of Sri Ramakrishna (1948) edited by Swami Vireswarananda
Context: Meditate upon the Knowledge and Bliss Eternal, and you will also have bliss. The Bliss indeed is eternal, only it is covered and obscured by ignorance. The less your attachment is towards the senses, the more will be your love towards God.

“When I saw how animals are tortured on factory farms, I couldn't justify being a part of that cruelty. I thought, "Imagine if that were me."”

Oliver Sykes (1986) British musician

Straight away, I said, "That's it – I'm going vegetarian".<br><br> "Oli Sykes joins animal rights campaign" https://web.archive.org/web/20131105210441/http://www.kerrang.com/blog/2008/10/oli_sykes_joins_animal_rights.html, interview with Kerrang! (30 October 2008).