“They're afraid of change, and we must change. They're afraid of the young, and we are the young. They're afraid of music, and music is our life. They're afraid of books, and knowledge, and ideas. They're most afraid of our magic.”
“You know things have gone bad when military marches pass for pop music.”
“Have you been playing in toxic waste lately? ”
“Margo, they're afraid of us. They're afraid of everything.' And then I kept on talking without really thinking, until it turned into a chant:
They're afraid of change, and we must change.
They're afraid of the young, and we are the young.
They're afraid of music, and music is our life.
They're afraid of books, and knowledge, and ideas.
They're most afraid of our magic.”
“Until now, I never noticed how much fantasy had to do with reality.”
“seize the moment, however worried you may be about what’s coming next. It’s your brain, it’s your life, it’s your attitude…. Go out there and fill up with sights, sounds, and ideas that are bigger than yourself.”
“She had a crooked nose and a pointy chin with a huge mole that had wiry black hairs growing out of it. Heck, if the New Order was really looking to arrest witches…”
“وكان هذا الاعتماد على الآلات يعني أنّنا لم نعد نعامل العقل البشري على أنّه عنصر أساس في العملية. إذ كلما زاد العقل البشري في إنتاج وسائل توفير الجهد كلما تضاءلت إمكانياته وأصبح ميالاً إلى النظر إلى كينونته باعتبارها آلة تفكير سلبية. إنّ الإنجازات العلمية للإنسان خلال القرون الماضية لم تدفع الإنسان إلا لمزيد من التفكير في نفسه كونه مخلوقاً سلبياً.”
“The Marines,' my dad said, 'will teach you everything I love you too much to teach you.”
“أن الجنون في الإنسان ناجم عن اصطدام الإنسان بذكائه ذاته”
“One of the things is that in times of severe disorder, you can't worry about the dead, only the living.”
“If ever there was a bloke at the very mention of whose name it would be excusable for people to tremble like aspens, that bloke is Sir Roderick Glossop. He has an enormous bald head, all the hair which ought to be on it seeming to have run into his eyebrows, and his eyes go through you like a couple of Death Rays.
"How are you, how are you, how are you?" I said, overcoming a slight desire to leap backwards out of the window.”
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