What we need is something, a definition of a human, starting from the ground up, so that the suitable moral structure that goes around it makes sense.
JERRY GARCIAIf we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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Music goes way back before language does. And music is like the key to a whole spiritual existence which this society doesn’t even talk about. We know it’s there.
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I Don’t Think There’s A Good Excuse For Being Unhappy. I’m Not Particularly Unhappy, But I Know What Pain Is. I think That Life Is Characterized By Pain.
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And when you don’t have to talk to the person next to you, that’s real clean. Takes a certain thing not to try to keep anything up, not to have to entertain one another.
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We’re not thinking about any kind of power. We’re not thinking about any kind of struggles. We’re not thinking about revolution or war or any of that. That’s not what we want.
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It turned out to be tremendously lucky. It’s just repellent enough to filter curious onlookers and just quirky enough that parents don’t like it.
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There’s a lot there to enlarge you. That’s part of the value of being in an extended family is that it enlarges you. It makes you bigger. It makes you more.
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An organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there.
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Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
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Live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win!
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You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only one who does what you do.
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Done time in the lock-up, done time on the streets. Done time on the upswing, and time in defeat.
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Everything is traditionally slow – much faster than it ever has been on earth but still far, far too slow.
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I know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time.
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There is some art that says the same thing to everybody. WE need something like that. What that is, I don’t know. But virtual reality may be the key to it.
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