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"I want to be seen. I want proof I existed."
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"Sitting makes us think of standingOur current stance keeps on demanding We wish to fly without the wings Puppets move before pulling the strings."
"The leaves of hopes which have destined words in the body of the thought have settled to the ground. This is the world."
"The world will see true peace when there are no boundaries of religion and the religion of all will be pure unconditional love."
"Don't be imprisoned by others perception of reality."
"We imagine always when we speak that it is our own ears, our own mind, that are listening."
"... the objects which we admire have no absolute value in themselves..."
"To wit, existence is communication and communication is existence."
"We cannot escape our origins, however hard we try, those origins which contain the key -could we but find it- to all we later become."
"Ideally a book would have no order in it, and the reader would have to discover his own."
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"But you know, there's something about the kids finishing their homework in a given day, working one-on-one, getting all this attention - they go home, they're finished. They don't stall, they don't do their homework in front of the TV."
"No. There is no balance, and no retribution, and no rules. The rules and balances you blather about are hopeful creations of a man fearing death."
"McSweeney's as a publishing company is built on a business model that only works when we sell physical books. So we try to put a lot of effort into the design and production of the book-as-object."
"If you don't have something grand for men like us to be part of, we will take apart all the little things. Neighbourhood by neighbourhood. Building by building. Family by family."
"His frustration with some Americans was like that of a disappointed parent. He was so content in this country, so impressed with and loving of its opportunities, but then why, sometimes, did Americans fall short of their best selves?"
"You see pictures of Buddha and he's sitting, reclining, at peace. The Hindus have their twelve-armed elephant god, who also seems so content but not powerless. But leave it to Christians to have a dead and bloody man nailed to a cross."
"We have advantages. We have a cushion to fall back on. This is abundance. A luxury of place and time. Something rare and wonderful. It's almost historically unprecedented. We must do extraordinary things. We have to. It would be absurd not to."
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