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Free the people from the fire, pull the boat out of the burning sea. Tell the devil he’s a liar, come and save the likes of me. ~ Kim Carnes (from “Vanishing Point” soundtrack)

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us. ~ Joseph Campbell

You just have to keep trying to do good work, and hope that it leads to more good work. I want to look back on my career and be proud that I tried everything. Yes, I want to look back and know that I was terrible at a variety of things. ~ Jon Stewart

The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it. ~ Michelangelo

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at. ~ martial artist Bruce Lee

America is now in that curious interlude that Nietzsche foretold a century ago: the time of the reevaluation, the devising of new values to replace the osteoporotic skeletons of the old. Behold, it is not the ending but the beginning! Sisters and brethren, it is written that these are evil days, but I say unto you: the holiest of spirits are even now bubbling up into every brain. ~ Tom Wolfe – The Sexed-Up, Doped-Up, Hedonistic Heaven of the Boom-Boom ’70s, Life Magazine article (December 1979)

For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others. ~ Nelson Mandela

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done. ~ martial artist Bruce Lee

“The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.” ~ Albert Einstein