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“You did not break me
I'm still fighting for peace”

Sia (musician) (1975) Australian singer

Elastic Heart, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (2013). Cowritten with Thomas Wesley Pentz, Andrew Swanson and Abel Tesfaye.
Songs

“We thought we'd be really big in Liverpool.”

Paul McCartney (1942) English singer-songwriter and composer

On the Beatles' early expectations of their success (2007 interview with Larry King)

“If slaughterhouses had glass walls, we would all be vegetarian.”

Paul McCartney (1942) English singer-songwriter and composer

Variant: If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.

“I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.”

Paul McCartney (1942) English singer-songwriter and composer

“You never know what's around the corner. It could be everything. Or it could be nothing. You keep putting one foot in front of the other, and then one day you look back and you've climbed a mountain.”

Tom Hiddleston (1981) English actor, producer and musical performer

“Perhaps a man really dies when his brain stops, when he loses the power to take in a new idea.”

George Orwell book Coming Up for Air

Source: Coming Up for Air, Part 3, Ch. 1

“My motto has always been “If you love animals, don’t eat them”…. the moment I began to understand what was going on with the treatment of animals, it led me more and more in the way of the path I am [on] now, which is a complete vegan.”

Bryan Adams (1959) Canadian singer-songwriter

“Bryan Adams on Animal Rights and Being Vegan”, interview with PETA, in Peta.org (7 January 2007) http://www.peta.org.uk/blog/bryan-adams-animal-rights-vegan/

“In general, how did the Son of Heaven come about? Did he descend from Heaven, or did he emerge from the earth? A leader is chosen to be the head of the neighborhood when five houses become neighbors. A leader is chosen to be the head of the village when five neighborhoods become neighbors. A leader is chosen to be the head of the county when five villages become neighbors. Several heads of counties choose a feudal lord, and several feudal lords choose the Son of Heaven. Thus the Son of Heaven is chosen by the people.”

Jeong Yak-yong (1762–1836) Korean scholar and philosopher

湯論

“In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. I think it’s impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves. And then, in that very moment when I love them…. I destroy them.”

Orson Scott Card book Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

“You really are children. You have no idea how power works, or who has it, or what you can actually do with it.”

Orson Scott Card book Stone Tables

Stone Tables (1997)

“If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.”

Maria Edgeworth (1768–1849) Irish writer

“What I cannot create, I do not understand.Know how to solve every problem that has been solved.”

Richard Feynman (1918–1988) American theoretical physicist

on his blackboard at the time of death in February 1988; from a photo in the Caltech archives http://archives.caltech.edu/pictures/1.10-29.jpg

“Changing your ways, changing those surrounding you.
Changing your ways, more than any man can do.
Open your heart, show him the anger and pain, so you heal.
Maybe he's looking for his womanly side, let him feel.”

Peter Gabriel (1950) English singer-songwriter, record producer and humanitarian

Shaking the Tree
Song lyrics, Shaking the Tree (1990)

“I am the me I choose to be.”

Sidney Poitier (1927) American-born Bahamian actor, film director, author, and diplomat

“It is difficult to exaggerate the power of habit.”

Robert Fripp (1946) English guitarist, composer and record producer

Guitar Craft Monograph III: Aphorisms, Oct. 27 1988

“How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot!
The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!
Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d”

Alexander Pope Eloisa to Abelard

Source: Eloisa to Abelard

“The wise man looks into space and does not regard the small as too little, nor the great as too big, for he knows that, there is no limit to dimensions.”

Zhuangzi (-369–-286 BC) classic Chinese philosopher

“Float with me in the world of ether.”

David Lynch (1946) American filmmaker, television director, visual artist, musician and occasional actor

“There's always fear of the unknown where there's mystery.”

David Lynch (1946) American filmmaker, television director, visual artist, musician and occasional actor

McKenna interview (1992)
Context: There's always fear of the unknown where there's mystery. It's possible to achieve a state where you realize the truth of life and fear disappears, and a lot of people have reached that state, but next to none of them are on Earth. There's probably a few.

“I hate slick and pretty things. I prefer mistakes and accidents. Which is why I like things like cuts and bruises - they're like little flowers. I've always said that if you have a name for something, like 'cut' or 'bruise,' people will automatically be disturbed by it. But when you see the same thing in nature, and you don't know what it is, it can be very beautiful.”

David Lynch (1946) American filmmaker, television director, visual artist, musician and occasional actor

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