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"Handy tips on how to behave at the death of the world" in Whole Earth Review (Spring 1995), p. 88 http://archive.is/20120715140307/findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1510/is_n85/ai_16816244
Context: Eschew blandness. Eschew causing others pain. We are all the target so wear bright colors and dance with those you love. Falling in love has always been a bit too much to apply to one person. Falling in love is appropriate for now, to love all these things which are about to leave. The rocks are watching, and the squirrels and the stars and the mlklk tired people in the street. If you love them, let them know, with grace and non-invasive extravagance. Care about the beings you care about in gorgeous and surprising ways. Color outside the lines. Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty. This is your last chance.
“If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.”
"The Leaning Tower", lecture delivered to the Workers' Educational Association, Brighton (May 1940)
The Moment and Other Essays (1948)
“The eye in wonder
The eye that sees
The "I" that loves you.”
Song lyrics, The Red Shoes (1993)
Context: The fine purple
The purest gold
The red of the Sacred Heart
The grey of a ghost
The "L" of the lips are open
To the "O" of the Host
The "V" of the velvet
The "E" of my eye
The eye in wonder
The eye that sees
The "I" that loves you.
“There is magic within
There is magic without
Follow me and you'll learn
Just what life's all about.”
Song lyrics, Singles and rarities
Context: When the fantasy bells
Of the universe ring
You can fly through the sky
On a dragonfly's wing.
There is magic within
There is magic without
Follow me and you'll learn
Just what life's all about.
“Please don’t call me arrogant, but I’m European champion and I think I’m a special one.”
http://www.fifa.com/worldfootball/news/newsid=1033132.html
2004
“God made them as stubble to our swords.”
Letter to Colonel Valentine Walton (5 July 1644)
“The universe has no circumference”
ibid.
Context: The universe has no circumference, for if it had a center and a circumference there would be some and some thing beyond the world, suppositions which are wholly lacking in truth. Since, therefore, it is impossible that the universe should be enclosed within a corporeal center and corporeal boundary, it is not within our power to understand the universe, whose center and circumference are God. And though the universe cannot be infinite, nevertheless it cannot be conceived as finite since there are no limits within which it could be confined.
Pond, Steve. "'Silver Linings Playbook' Oscar Nominee Jennifer Lawrence Shares Her Acting Secret: Never Sweat" https://movies.yahoo.com/news/silver-linings-playbook-oscar-nominee-jennifer-lawrence-shares-220811334.html. movies.yahoo.com. February 15, 2013. Retrieved March 29, 2014.
“I don't want to believe. I want to know.”
HIStory: Past, Present & Future, Book I (1995)
"The Chris Farley Show" sketch on Saturday Night Live, regarding the Paul is Dead hoax.
"Silly Love Songs", 1976
Lyrics, Wings
Context: You'd think that people would have had enough of silly love songs
I look around me and I see it isn't so
Some people want to fill the world with silly love songs
And what's wrong with that?
I'd like to know
'Cause here I go again...
I love you.
“the beatles were always a great band. nothing more nothing less”
Source: Blackbird Singing: Poems and Lyrics, 1965-1999
“Don't live to fight, fight to live.”
Source: Resurrection, 1971-1996
Attributed to Zuse in: Ra L Rojas, Ulf Hashagen (2002) The First Computers: History and Architectures. p. 270