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People need a sacred narrative. They must have a sense of larger purpose, in one form or another, however intellectualized. They will find a way to keep ancestral spirits alive.


Edward O. Wilson

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O. HENRY Turn up the lights. I don't want to go home in the dark.
O. HENRY The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
O. HENRY It is said that love makes the world go 'round - the announcement lacks verification. It's w...
O. HENRY I'm a proud vegan, whistle-blower, and animal rights activist.
STEVE-O Rather than wait to be discovered, discover yourself. Whatever it is that you intend to do later, st...
STEVE-O Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words wh...
O. HENRY Turn up the lights. I don't want to go home in the dark.
O. HENRY Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
O. HENRY We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
O. HENRY All of us have to be prevaricators, hypocrites, and liars every day of our lives; otherwise the soci...
O. HENRY There's definitely some parallels between me and Joaquin Phoenix, I think. The line gets so blur...
STEVE-O Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citiz...
O. HENRY Almost as soon as I went vegan, people started telling me that my skin looked great, and that I appe...
STEVE-O I never contemplated any kind of existence or identity after my career. I never thought at some poin...
STEVE-O The people of the State of Texas consist principally of men, women, and children, with a sprinkling ...
O. HENRY The psychiatric ward was a really creepy place and, hindsight being 20/20, the creepiest thing about...
STEVE-O I started out making skateboard videos. Soon, it dawned on me I just wasn't that great at skateb...
STEVE-O She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim owne...
O. HENRY It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
O. HENRY Life is made up of sobs, sniffles and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
O. HENRY It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.
O. HENRY A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
O. HENRY