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"Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you." Chuck Klosterman

“Expectation is the root of all heartache.”- William Shakespeare

"The free soul is rare but you know it when you see it!- Basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them..."Charles Bukowski

 “No one really knew Freddie. He was shy, gentle and kind. He wasn’t the person he put over on stage.” -  Roger Taylor

“He said the next generation will be the ones to beat this. And the sad thing is, if it had been twelve months later he might have been okay, when combination drug therapy came in. But he was getting frail and he decided to come off all the medication apart from painkillers. Freddie loved life. He lived it to the full. And towards the end, when he realized it was no longer fun, he decided to come off medication. He was suffering and sadly there was no way out.”-  Brian May on Freddie Mercury’s final weeks

 “I love the fact that I can make people happy, in any form. Even if it’s just an hour of their lives, if I can make them feel lucky or make them feel good, or bring a smile to a sour face, that to me is worthwhile.” - Freddie Mercury

deus ex machina - any artificial or improbable device resolving the difficulties of a plot.

An ad hominem (Latin for "to the man"), short for argumentum ad hominem, is an argument made personally against an opponent, instead of against the opponent's argument.

"Half a century later, I started Brain Pickings in large part out of frustration and disappointment with my trampling experience of our culturally fetishized “Ivy League education.” I found myself intellectually and creatively unstimulated by the industrialized model of the large lecture hall, the PowerPoint presentations, the standardized tests assessing my rote memorization of facts rather than my ability to transmute that factual knowledge into a pattern-recognition mechanism that connects different disciplines to cultivate wisdom about how the world works and a moral lens on how it should work.- Maria Popova

“Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it’s not because they enjoy solitude. It’s because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.” -  Jodi Picoult, My Sister’s Keeper 

“Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls.” – Joseph Campbell

"Inspiration is a guest that only calls when invited"

Facebook n. Almanack wherein People do catalogue their Achievements for publick Consumption; thus a strutting Compendium of Peacockery

The Airbrush Obergruppenführer

'I have nigh on one Hundred PROBLEMS, yet my WENCH is not one'

“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”- Anais Nin

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.” - Anais Nin

Your worst enemy cannot harm you As much as your own thoughts, unguarded: Buddha

“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it is tied to everything else in the universe."-John Muir

A rejection is nothing more than a necessary step in the pursuit of success. --Bo Bennett

“Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.” - Clive James

“If one person tells you you're a horse, they are crazy. If three people tell you you're a horse, There's conspiracy afoot. If ten people tell you you're a horse, it's time to buy a saddle”

Aurea mediocritas - In philosophy, especially that of Aristotle, the golden mean is the desirable middle between two extremes, one of excess and the other of deficiency. For example courage, a virtue, if taken to excess would manifest as recklessness and if deficient as cowardice.

"Wings, the band the Beatles could have been!" - Alan Partridge

'Knowledge without mileage equals bullshit' - Henry Rollins

Teaching is a profession where you can be unbelievably mediocre and yet still be considered successful.

“Compra solamente lo necesario, no lo conveniente. Lo innecesario, aunque cueste un solo céntimo, es caro”.
“Buy only what is necessary, not what is convenient. What is unnecessary, even if it only costs one cent, is expensive.”

"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time." - Thomas A. Edison

“Those who can, do; those who can't, teach. Those who can't teach, teach gym.” Woody Allen

"The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side." - Dr. Hunter S. Thompson - 1935 – 2004

"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity." - Hanlon's Razor

Sturgeon's Law - "Ninety percent of everything is crap".

“Inspiration is for amateurs — the rest of us just show up and get to work.” Chuck Close on creativity