“I think people assume I only do light things because of the movies that are like 'Hairspray' and 'John Tucker Must Die.' But I think it's all just based on material that I really like and that speaks to me.” PeopleThinkingLightDiesSpeakMaterialsAssumingHairspray Author:Brittany Snow
“Our goal is not to assume leadership of existing institutions, but rather to render them irrelevant. We don't want to take over the state or change its policies. We want to render its laws unenforceable. We don't want to take over corporations and make them more 'socially responsible.' We want to build a counter-economy of open-source information, neighborhood garage manufacturing, permaculture, encrypted currency and mutual banks, leaving the corporations to die on the vine along with the state. We do not hope to reform the existing order. We intend to serve as its grave-diggers.” WantStatesLawPurposeOrderDiesSocialGoalChangeEconomyInformationPolicySourceEconomicsResponsibleAimInstitutionsAssumingLeavingGravesReformCorporationsNeighborhoodMutualCurrencyIrrelevantManufacturingReformationGarageVinesRenderingPermacultureOpen SourceEconomic Reforms Author:Kevin Carson
“The victims of ennui paralyze all the grosser feelings by excess, and torpify all the finer by disuse and inactivity. Disgusted with this world, and indifferent about another, they at last lay violent hands upon themselves, and assume no small credit for the sang froid with which they meet death. But, alas! such beings can scarcely be said to die, for they have never truly lived.” WorldSaidFeelingsHandsLastsDiesThis WorldVictimLaysAssumingCreditViolentExcessIndifferentAlasDisgustedEnnuiInactivity Author:Charles Caleb Colton
“With hearts fortified with these animating reflections, we most solemnly, before God and the world, declare, that, exerting the utmost energy of those powers, which our beneficent Creator hath graciously bestowed upon us, the arms we have compelled by our enemies to assume, we will, in defiance of every hazard, with unabating firmness and perseverance employ for the preservation of our liberties; being with one mind resolved to die freemen rather than to live as slaves.” WorldMindHeartDiesEnergyLibertyEnemyArmsReflectionAssumingSlavePerseveranceCreatorPreservationCompelledDefianceHazardsFirmnessFreeman Book:The Life and Writings of John Dickinson Source: The Life and Writings of John Dickinson
“To the rich, therefore, falls the burden of Beauty. And if they cannot assume it, then they deserve to die.” IfsDiesFallRichDeserveAssumingBurden Book:The Elegance of the Hedgehog Source: The Elegance of the Hedgehog