Modernity invented the future, but that’s all over. In the current version ‘progressive history’ camouflages phylogenetic death-drive tactics, Kali-wave: logistically accelerating condensation of virtual species extinction. Welcome to the matricide laboratory. You want it so badly it’s a slow scream in your head, deleting itself into bliss.
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Related The idea is to believe me... but as far as I see the world... to believe is a sin... to trust me one... DEYTH BANGER Living in your genome is the history of our species. BARRY SCHULER We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives. THICH NHAT HANH She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl... IN THE MAKING When you live in the present, the past is forgotten & the future takes care of itself. MANDY HALE Meditation is painful in the beginning but it bestows immortal Bliss and supreme joy in the end. SWAMI SIVANANDA You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl... TAMMARA WEBBER The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS It’s pretty hard to get to another star system. Alpha Centauri is four light years away, so if you... ELON MUSK The American people love this law. By majorities of 75 or 80 percent, they want to protect species a... BROCK EVANS Perhaps grief is like battle: After experiencing enough of it, your body’s instincts take over. Wh... SABAA TAHIR Welcome, welcome to Caraval! The grandest show on land or by sea. Inside you’ll experience more wo... STEPHANIE GARBER If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever. FRANCINE RIVERS The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS Deception is very slow, and it almost camouflages its self with the truth in the initial stages. It ... JOHN ALEXANDER TRISTRAM Freedom? That’s easy. It’s in your choices. Happiness? That’s easy. It’s in your choices. Re... RYAN HOLIDAY In the beginning, there was nothing and from nothing came our species then behold the dawn of music.... GARY F EVANS... There are more important things than finding the murderer. And justice is a fine word, but it is som... AGATHA CHRISTIE Smiling at death seems like a pretty bold act. And so I smile like a damned fool. EMM COLE History is hard to know, because of all the hired bullshit, but even without being sure of “histor... HUNTER S. THOMPSON Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON Living with AIDS is like always having the sword of Damocles over your head. The disease is scarier ... LARRY KRAMER …the trouble with oaths of the form, death before dishonor , is that eventually, given enoug... LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Strange memories on this nervous night in Las Vegas. Five years later? Six? It seems like a lifetime... HUNTER S. THOMPSON Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run… but no explanation, no mix of words or music... HUNTER S. THOMPSON So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and wi... HUNTER S. THOMPSON There was madness in any direction, at any hour. If not across the Bay, then up the Golden Gate or d... HUNTER S. THOMPSON There was madness in any direction, at any hour. You could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fanta... HUNTER S. THOMPSON It seems like a lifetime, or at least a Main Era — the kind of peak that never comes again. San Fr... HUNTER S. THOMPSON We can leave a place behind, or we can stay in that place and leave our selfishness (often expressed... JOHN H. GROBERG All that the spider needs to complete its web is step taking ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Even as we live with the knowledge that each day might be our last, we don’t want to believe it. SHARON SALZBERG An emotionally locked person refuses to let go of their sad memories and live in the now. KILROY J. OLDSTER Pan-Species Communism. It’s an ideology I invented. Or maybe you can call it a faith. Its core bel... LIU CIXIN There is no greater glory than to die for love. GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Together they had overcome the daily incomprehension, the instantaneous hatred, the reciprocal nasti... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. S... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ ubiquitous , adj . When it’s going well, the fact of it is everywhere. It�... DAVID LEVITHAN America is, therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of t... G. W. F. HEGEL The Scottish sun, shocked by having its usual cloudy underpinnings stripped away, shone feverishly, ... STUART HADDON Don’t take yourself too seriously. Take yourself as seriously as death itself. Don’t worry. Worr... BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN If you are a misfit in one place, you will be a great fit in another. ALAN COHEN You can drive in your imaginations to make a tour to your future, visit it and see all kinds of good... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Just like heaven. Ever’body wants a little piece of lan’. I read plenty of books out here. Nobod... JOHN STEINBECK Time that is spent dwelling on the past will surely continue in your present moment - and the future... MICHELLE CRUZ-ROSADO We're incredibly excited to welcome the 500 millionth Poptropican into our virtual world. When w... JEFF KINNEY America is therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of th... GEORG W. HEGEL America is therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of th... GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL America is therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of th... GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL By the terms of the U.S. Supreme Court decision in June of last year legalizing the practice of dest... STEVEN A. COULTER To get over the past, you first have to accept that the past is over. No matter how many times you r... MANDY HALE I have always wished the present to resemble memory: because the present can be flat at times, and b... LYDIA MILLET There is no such thing as objectivity. We are all just interpreting signals from the universe and tr... BONES THE DOCTOR IN THE PHOTO It's so uplifting to see the image in your head of your future when you believe in yourself WALTER CROMARTIE JR Use your heart. Understand. Learn to see things in the now, not as they were or will be, or as ... E.J. PATTEN Time is a teacher which in the end it kills all it's students. (Synchronicity 2015 Film) DEYTH BANGER You know the greatest lesson of history? It’s that history is whatever the victors say it is. That... ANTHONY DOERR Land bridges were everywhere during the extinction, many species were spreading, and there were many... ROBERT T. BAKKER I travel to know where I fit into the world, and where I don’t. CAREW PAPRITZ Time is so important.'so spend time doing something that you love.' make the most of it and Let the ... NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO No, of course not. But surely you know your affair couldn't go on forever." "Forever has no mea... ELLEN HOPKINS A perfectly decent fellow may be driven by circumstances to commit a crime and if he's found out he'... W.SOMERSET MAUGHAM Let me repeat. I have not read all the work of this present generation of writing. I have not had ti... WILLIAM FAULKNER I hate saying corny things like "traveling incognito." But when I'm with somebody that's corny, I al... J.D. SALINGER “Love is not to be discovered but felt.It is brewing in air across universe.One needs only open ey... ANUJ SOMANY I promise myself that I will enjoy every minute of the day that is given me to live. THICH NHAT HANH You can't go back to how things were. How you thought they were. All you really have is...now. JAY ASHER Life is a journey, not a destination. RALPH WALDO EMERSON It is so torturous to be in the crowd not only because the voice there is usually loud, but also oft... ANUJ SOMANY When you grow up there are things that you would love to do make your father proud is one and have f... GARY F EVANS... It seems like all the best people have all the worst habits. THOMAS WALLACE SCHERZER A person who lives truly in present time is dependent on oneself only not on sycophants’ people. ANUJ SOMANY I had a best friend once 20 years down the line a friendship that you just do not get now, i regarde... GARY F EVANS... Tongues are a miraculous manifestations of being filled with the Holy Ghost. PST ADELAJA SUNDAY The Buddha told him, "When we sit, we know we are sitting. When we walk, we know we are walking. Whe... THICH NHAT HANH She plucked the blossoms from the bag and arranged them, one by one, in the water glass on her dress... SARAH JIO Tomorrow is tomorrow. Future cares have future cures, And we must mind today. SOPHOCLES To him, even the momentary was momentous. G.K. CHESTERTON You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the... JAN GLIDEWELL I’m pretty sure there are some things in the dark that we’re not meant to see. KARINA HALLE I know,” said November. He was pale and thin lipped. He helped October out of the wooden chair. �... NEIL GAIMAN God is not impressed with what PRECEDES your name, but how you PROCEED in His Name." BJ NELSON When Luke had descended into the River Styx, he would've had to focus on something important that wo... RICK RIORDAN The darkness is calling. A little danger, a little risk. Feel your heart race. Listen to it. That’... BROM If I died now," he said, "you would hardly remember me when you are my age." He said it for no ... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Just because you believe something was true in the past does not mean it will be true in the future. JEFFREY FRY Beautify your breath – beautify your life. AMIT RAY My species should know the following about itself: -The universe created the ultimate abs... HAROUTIOUN BOCHNAKIAN I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, ... KAREN THOMPSON WALKER In the end it doesn't matter what you do. HARRISON BIRTWISTLE That’s what I liked about those nuns. You could tell, for one thing, that they never went anywhere... J.D. SALINGER Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON No one should let yesterday use up too much of today. Easy to say, hard to live. ANDREA HAIRSTON It may be the kind where, at the age of thirty, you sit in some bar hating everybody who comes in lo... J.D. SALINGER There was a house at the foot of the tower, close to the thunder of the waves breaking against the c... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ If you want something to be true badly enough, you can rewrite it that way, in your head. You can ev... JODI PICOULT Some things that goes out of your mouth can wrap itself around your neck and choke you to death in f... MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON Strange memories on this nervous night in Las Vegas. Five years later? Six? It seems like a lifetime... HUNTER S. THOMPSON Cruelty isn't a personality trait. Cruelty is a habit. RICK YANCEY Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end. GEORGE A. MOORE
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NICK CANNON Mariah is a beautiful and talented person, and I've had a crush on her for as long as I can reme... NICK CANNON I think my kids give mommy more attention than they give me. NICK CANNON People think that as a celebrity, you have to have this sort of mystique about you, but I'm prob... NICK CANNON The world of music is changing so dramatically every day, the way people hear music. It's differ... NICK JONAS You have to struggle a bit, hustle a little, and be willing to go bankrupt. Once you're willing ... NICK NOLTE The UK is not going to leave the European Union. Of course not. We are inextricably wound up with Eu... NICK CLEGG Although I am a young leader, I actually came to it strangely quite late. I have a different perspec... NICK CLEGG I started racing myself and once you get bitten by that bug you really are hooked. NICK MASON Once, the world was full of mysteries, some of them frightening, some of them wonderful, some of the... 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