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- A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.
- Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986), Dune (First Law of Mentat)
- The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.
- Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986), Dune (Reverend Mother Mohiam)
- It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.
- Hunter S. Thompson (1939 - 2005)
- The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.
- Hunter S. Thompson (1939 - 2005), San Francisco Examiner, 1985
- No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
- Hunter S. Thompson (1939 - 2005)
- If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.
- Hunter S. Thompson (1939 - 2005)
- Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.
- Hunter S. Thompson (1939 - 2005)
- Castles made of sand fall in the sea eventually.
- Jimi Hendrix (1942 - 1970)
- Until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words,--'Wait and hope'.
- Alexandre Dumas (1802 - 1870), The Count of Monte Cristo
- Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804 - 1864)
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