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::: My quote :::

"Everything I do wrong in this world is worth it because everything I do right.... isn't"
— Me, 1999


::: My collected quotes :::

"We still do not know where the urge for truth comes from; for as yet we have heard only of the obligation imposed by society that it should exist: to be truthful means using the customary metaphors - in moral terms, the obligation to lie according to fixed convention, to lie herd-like in a style obligatory for all..."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, 1888

"Choose, and what thou choosest.... shall be thine."
— anonymous, ????

"Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular."
— Aristotle, 310 B.C.

"Is it evil in here, or is it just me?"
— Me, 2003

"Crime doesn't pay..... as much as politics."
— anonymous, ????
 
"The Moon is the greatest place on Earth."
— anonymous, ????

"If I have a book that thinks for me, a pastor who acts as my conscience, a physician who prescribes my diet, and so on -- then I have no need to exert myself."
— Immanuel Kant, 1784
 
"Sometimes our ability to fit in tends to disguise itself as an advantage in life."
— Me, 2005

"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will always find ways around them."
— Plato, 337 B.C.
 
"Friends are like wedgies... they know your inner self, they're intimately close, and it feels good when you pick out a good one."
— anonymous, ????

"If everybody shared my opinion, I'd probably change my mind."
— anonymous, ????

"People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid."
— Soren Aabye Kierkegaard, 1850
 
"I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them."
— Ian L. Fleming, 1960

"You don't marry someone you can live with - you marry the person who you cannot live without."
— anonymous, ????

"The man who never stubs his toe is probably standing still."
— anonymous, ????
 
"Hell is paved with good samaritans."
— William M. Holden, 1883
 
"Our planet is the mental institution of the universe."
— Johann von Goethe, ????

"The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules while quietly playing by your own."
— Michael Konda, ????

"Sometimes I expect everything and get nothing, sometimes I expect nothing and get nothing, and sometimes nothing expects everything from me."
— Me, 2005

"People who make fun of you are not human."
— anonymous, ????

"The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others." 
           — Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, ????
 
"I have a bitter tongue, but it tastes great."
— Me, 2007

"If you look to a book for answers, understand that all the book knows is what is written on its pages."
— anonymous, ????

 "Eyeballs are soft but you need them to see."
— anonymous, ????

"The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark."
— Michelangelo, ????
 
"All I know is what this thing in my skull tells me."
— Me, 2005

"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."
— Samuel Johnson, 1768
 
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."
— Mark Twain, 1876

"We can't solve our problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."
— Albert Einstein, ????

 "Never say that you aren't beautiful because self-doubt is our number one ugliest weakness."
— anonymous, ????

"From the darkness came the light."
 — anonymous, ????

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."
— Dr. Seuss, ????
 
"God, please save me from your followers!"
— a Bumper Sticker, 2005
 


::: Personal decree :::

I believe in the usage of words as a source of the release of all things trapped in the Realm of The Unspoken ---tiny tools, or weapons if you will; no, magical little relics of communication which enable beings of voice to tap into the mysterious powers within and around themselves. I vow never to adhere to the containment of individuality through the evils of an inhibited freedom of speech or to rest myself defined by any soul-shackling labels society scrounges up to lay upon me. My words have the power to save me from becoming anything other than the person I wish myself to be. I believe in words. I believe in me.

 

::: Me :::

We're all born but only a poet gives birth to himself.