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Quotes — Will Mannon

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“We have to create culture, don't watch TV, don't read magazines, don't even listen to NPR. Create your own roadshow. The nexus of space and time where you are now is the most immediate sector of your universe, and if you're worrying about Michael Jackson or Bill Clinton or somebody else, then you are disempowered, you're giving it all away to icons, icons which are maintained by an electronic media so that you want to dress like X or have lips like Y. This is shit-brained, this kind of thinking. That is all cultural diversion, and what is real is you and your friends and your associations, your highs, your orgasms, your hopes, your plans, your fears. And we are told 'no', we're unimportant, we're peripheral. 'Get a degree, get a job, get a this, get a that.' And then you're a player, you don't want to even play in that game. You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that's b

Quotes - Will Mannon “Words are not just descriptive. Words are generative.” -Jason Silva The words you choose matter . Language generates . Your words create your world. Below are some of my favorite words. Hall of Fame Quotes: “That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.” Emily Dickinson “In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.” Albert Camus “Nourish yourself with grand and austere ideas of beauty that feed the soul. You are always being lured away by foolish distractions. Seek solitude.” Eugene Delacroix “What is the meaning of life? A simp

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