Wise Borana Sayings

#1. 'Thou shalt not kill' does not apply to murder of one's own kind only, but to all living beings and this commandment was inscribed in the human breast long before it was proclaimed from Sinai.

Leo Tolstoy

#2. I have my permanent muses and my muses of the moment.

Karl Lagerfeld

#3. At my sexiest, I look like an androgenous Muppet.

Matthew Gray Gubler

#4. So DeCSS didn't introduce anything new for pirating and had already been available.

Jon Johansen

#5. Humans have wandered the Earth for thousands of years but never has our capacity to alter the Earth's ecosystem at a larger scale been more prominent than it is today.

Kat Lahr

#6. When you find a germ of truth, beware. Those germs can make you sick.

John R. Erickson

#7. Entheogens are not to be lightly trifled with ... However, if taken with the right attitude and in the proper setting, psychoactive drugs may produce religious experiences ... it is far less clear that they can produce religious lives.

Huston Smith

#8. The Roman Christian mythology (and theology) discourages the vice of licentiousness, and so this is better than the heathen, but it encourages bigotry, hypocrisy, cant, and many another vice which the older Mother of Abominations kept clear from.

Theodore Parker

#9. I suppose things are better now, but ... I don't know. People still hate each other, they just know how to hide it better.

Steve Buscemi

#10. Both poetry and philosophy are prodigal of eulogy over the mind which ransoms itself by its own energy from a captivity to custom, which breaks the common bounds of empire, and cuts a Simplon over mountains of difficulty for its own purposes, whether of good or of evil.

Horace Mann

#11. What is wrong with you? Why aren't you freaking out right now? Garrett Graham is sitting in your booth. He talked to you." "Holy shit, he did? I mean, his lips were moving, but I didn't realize he was talking.

Elle Kennedy

#12. We identify ourselves by what moves us.

Dana Spiotta