P.J. Manney > Quotes

“Peter was learning you don’t mess with redheads. Even when they’re blond.”
― P.J. Manney

“We are the sum total of all our experiences, our lessons, our successes, our failures, our loves, our hates, from birth to death. And if those memories disappear, what then? Who are we?”
― P.J. Manney, (R)evolution

“the brain isn’t a recorder to record reality. It tries to make sense of it, even if the input is completely random or, in some cases, doesn’t exist. Déjà vu, synchronicity, telepathy, clairvoyance, are all the brain’s attempt to make sense of chaos after the fact. You only think it happened before the fact because your brain needs to think so.”
― P.J. Manney, (R)evolution

“groundbreaking, out-of-the-box innovation rarely comes from a committee process or anxious overseers. It still usually comes from individuals like you who experience the ‘Eureka moment’ and have the ability to see it through.”
― P.J. Manney, (R)evolution

“In every well-governed state, wealth is a sacred thing; in democracies, it is the only sacred thing. Anatole France.”
― P.J. Manney, (R)evolution

“I’ve watched a real degeneration of high-level political candidates over the years. They get dumber, more plastic and vacant every decade.”
― P.J. Manney, (R)evolution

“self-made men make aristocrats insecure.”
― P.J. Manney, (R)evolution

“his goals felt as hollow as the Tin Man’s chest.”
― PJ Manney, (R)evolution

“I hate that illusions we create about our lives are revealed by technology to be lies.”
― P.J. Manney, (R)evolution

“the public didn’t want to believe bad stories about their leaders, because they couldn’t imagine doing the same heinous things themselves and didn’t like knowing they were suckers for buying a sociopath’s song and dance.”
― P.J. Manney, (R)evolution

“You’re a rich, white, American male. What do they call them? A Master of the Universe? You’re accustomed to believing the world is there for the making and taking.”
― P.J. Manney, (R)evolution

“clean-cut collegiate types, dressed in their mall-bought clothes, armed with large, techno-friendly, solar-powered backpacks. They radiated competence, seriousness, and dedication. Had they worn suits, you might have mistaken them for Mormon missionaries.”
― P.J. Manney, (R)evolution

“The implant expanded Chang’s mental context and allowed the whole world to make an impression. Not just the parts his brain chose to select. Knowing more meant he understood more, which meant he realized he was wrong. And he wanted to stop.”
― P.J. Manney, (R)evolution

“Congress stopped funding anything that smacked of the words “revolutionary” or “groundbreaking” years ago.”
― P.J. Manney, (R)evolution

“In every well-governed state, wealth is a sacred thing; in democracies, it is the only sacred thing.”
― P.J. Manney, (R)evolution

“Music elicited a greater response for Alzheimer’s patients than any other stimuli, because music traveled different neural pathways than did other perceptions—pathways”
― P.J. Manney, (R)evolution

“Even a paranoid has some real enemies,”
― P.J. Manney, (R)evolution

“you can’t dance with the devil without learning the steps. And then you’re a devil yourself.”
― P.J. Manney, (R)evolution

“Follistatin,”
― P.J. Manney, (R)evolution

“Change seemed gradual, until it wasn’t.”
― P.J. Manney, (CON)science

“This interventional neuroradiology group was rescued from Venezuela’s medical care-for-oil deal, in which the Cuban government sold over twenty-two thousand Cuban doctors into medical slavery. Venezuela got cheap medical care for the poor, which generated votes, and the Castros could keep their country’s cars and generators going, on free Venezuelan oil. The”
― P.J. Manney, (R)evolution

“seen the universe work in synchronistic and coincidental ways before. That meant to pay attention, if for no other reason than that the subconscious was registering concerns that the consciousness had not yet recognized.”
― P.J. Manney, (CON)science

“The future happens whether they like it or not. Life isn’t some creationist bedtime story—this is the way life’s always been and will always be. It’s Darwinian.”
― P.J. Manney, (R)evolution

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
― P.J. Manney, (R)evolution

“Breaking News,” which came of age chasing white Broncos and watching Twin Towers fall, reached its apotheosis.”
― P.J. Manney, (R)evolution

“Karma reflects the interconnectedness of everything. And it doesn’t apply to some next, reincarnated life, it applies to this one. Of course evildoers are eventually vanquished. Their denial of interconnectedness, thinking they can do what benefits them and hurts others, lays the groundwork for their destruction. Newton’s third law: Every action has an equal and opposite reaction—whether you’re a bloodthirsty dictator or a saint. No deed, good or bad, goes unpunished.”
― P.J. Manney, (R)evolution

“The woman had a blown-tight face only a wind tunnel could love and the hands of a crypt keeper.”
― P.J. Manney, (R)evolution

“The two men bro-hugged,”
― PJ Manney, (R)evolution

“Our p-people have proved throughout history. Better paranoid than dead.”
― P.J. Manney, (R)evolution

“It was clear that Nick was holding Carter more tightly to his person than he was Peter,”
― PJ Manney, (R)evolution