Thornton Blackburn Quotes & Sayings

A flash of enlightenment offers a preview of coming attractions, but when it fades, you will see more clearly what separates you from that state - your compulsive habits, outmoded beliefs, false associations, and other mental structures. Just when our lives are starting to get better, we may feel like things are getting worse - because for the first time we see clearly what needs to be done. — Dan Millman

It disturbed me that people would come to the mountains and regard the place as if it was somehow unreal, as if no action of theirs could have an affect on the landscape. — Sid Marty

The United States, like any great power, is always going to have an intelligence operation, and some electronic surveillance is obligatory in the modern world. — Jeffrey Toobin

Consider the following dialogue between an instructor (A) and two of his students (B, C)
A. What happened in the senate
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on the Ides of March 44 B.C.?
B. Napoleon stabbed Mrs Thatcher.
C. Brutus did stab Caesar. In the senate it happened. It was Cassius that stabbed him. — A.M. Devine

I find myself a lot more open to bands if I just hear their song. It gives you an opportunity to engage with the thing itself and not be overwhelmed by everything else that surrounds it. — Win Butler