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There is a spiritual mythology centred around
the goddess of playfulness, and the realm of "play".
 
 
 
Lee Breuer
 
 

Last updated (as promised, Keiran) 12.10.2005

 
 
 
 
 
 
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Don't wanna discuss it
Think it's time for a change.
Van Morrison (from Domino)
 
Instead of looking for the dream in reverie,
people should look for reverie in the dream.
Bachelard
 
Life is short, and the time of death is uncertain;
so apply yourselves to mediation.
Mila Repa
(Tibetan Monk)
 
How ugly it is, even uglier than
a woman's thing!
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
(Extract fom Love in the Time of Cholera)
 
Hale Selassie-I did not die in Egypt. He's on my hat!
Lee 'Scratch' Perry Showing off a badge on his hat.
 
To attain knowledge add something every day,
to attain wisdom remove something every day.
Ancient Chinese Proverb
 
She has entertained narcissistic dreams; to the male's phallic pride she she still opposes her cult of self...
On The Independent Woman, Extract from The Second Sex Simone De Beauvoir
 
All you need is love.
The Beatles
 
You're lazy just stay in bed
You're lazy just stay in bed.
Deep Purple (extract from "Lazy")
 
...Words of an American God
Spat forth from an automatic weapon...
Martin Challis
 
Physics is a form of insight and such it is a form of art.
David Bohm
 
There is a reason in Nature why something should
exist rather than not.
Leibniz
 
Chaos is ubiquitous.
John Barrow
 
The most extraordinary thing about intelligence
is that we have no idea what it is.
Extracted from "The Madness of Prince Hamlet (And Other Extraordinary States Of Mind)"
by Robert M. Youngson
 
Grief, not for torment, but for loss undying.
Extracted from The Devine Comedy: Hell, Dante
 
A little drink is a dangerous thing;
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring:
There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,
And drinking largely sobers again.
Pope
 
Sorry is all that you can say.
Tracy Chapman
 
Get up, stand up
Robert Nesta Marley/Peter Tosh
 
I'm preoccupied by death, love, struggle and politics.
Linton Kwesi Johnson
 
Western Civilization? I think it would be a great idea.
(Attributed to) Gandhi
 
Consider the past and you shall know the future.
Chinese Proverb
 
Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.
Chief Seattle (Amerindian philosopher)
 
To be a rock and not to roll.
Last line of "Stairway to Heaven", Led Zeppelin
 
To conscience go in quiet mood.
And find yourself each morn anew;
Feed thou upon the psychic food
That makes the gods in mortal hue...
Extracted from "Find Yourself", Marcus Garvey
 
Nothing has a permanent essense, soul or self.
Buddhist teaching
 
We don't deserve this place
Ani Difranco
 
She who is wise knows she does not know
Jostien Gaarder
 
I have a friend,
At the end,
Of the world,
His name,
Is a breath.
Extract from "Black March", Stevie Smith

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