Systematized Delusion Quotes & Sayings

Any labor which competes with slave labor must accept the economic conditions of slave labor. — Norbert Wiener

Show us life, now — Miranda July

It's better to spend a lot on a getup you love than a fraction of that on something, or even five of those somethings, that you'll never bother to take out of the shopping bag. By the way, this advice also applies to discount love interests. And half-price sushi. — Patricia Marx

History, mythology, and folktales are filled with stories of people punished for saying the truth. Only the Fool, exempt from society's rules, is allowed to speak with complete freedom. — Jane Hirshfield

Good service leads to multiple sales. If you take good care of your customers, they will open doors you could never open by yourself. — Jim Rohn

The most likely way to kill a tradition is to over-formalize it, which is to carry it on in the same way after everyone has ceased to defer to it. The way to revive it is to show that it has grown out of and is still related to our most cherished values. But this requires radical insight and the stripping away of many things which are mere accretions. — Richard M. Weaver

Up past the old lime kiln
built into the side of a hill
we take a hard right at a clearing
lined by brittle apple trees
still willing to bear fruit.

I snap sticks beneath my feet
and steal pictures of the view
while you reach for something
sweet, as much as it bows
to you. — Kristen Henderson

The New Right, in many cases, is doing nothing less than placing a heretical claim on Christian faith that distorts, confuses, and destroys the opportunity for a biblical understanding of Jesus Christ and of his gospel for millions of people. — Mark Hatfield

Hold your head high, stick your chest out. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive. — Jesse Jackson

He looked all Negro to me: he was rich chocolate with flaring nostrils and beautiful teeth. Sometimes he would skip happily , and the Negro woman tugged his hand to make him stop. — Harper Lee

She would rather see for herself; she doesn't trust Tobias to interpret; she suspects him of holding things back. — Margaret Atwood

What's become more important to me over time is to not try to sell myself as someone that I'm not, and that begins with coming out of the closet and gradually it's a challenge to expand that into other areas of my life. — Christopher Rice

Sometimes the only place you find help is the last place you look. — Jordan Castillo Price

They just say words, and what are words but sounds these men shape out of breath, weightless vapors they send into the air of the kitchen to dissipate and die. — Anthony Doerr