John Pruett:
CLASS OF 2000
Clear Brook High SchoolClass of 2000
Friendswood, TX
John's Story
John is from Houston, Texas. John's schools include Clear Brook High School. John later attended University of Houston (Economics, Political Science) , The University of Texas at Austin (Economics, History) . John works(ed) at Seiu, Obama For America, Project On Government Oversight.
Music John likes includes Blur, Paperhaus, Royal Baths. Movies John likes include The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. TV shows John likes include Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations, The Tommy Taylor Show, Garth Marenghi's Darkplace.
One of John's favorite quotes is:""For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places." - Ephesians 6:12
"We have learned, a little late no doubt, that for states as for individuals real wealth consists not in acquiring or invading the domains of others, but in developing one's own. We have learned that all extensions of territory, all usurpations, by force or by fraud, which have long been connected by prejudice with the idea of 'rank,' of 'hegemony,' of 'political stability,' of 'superiority' in the order of the Powers, are only the cruel jests of...Expand for more
political lunacy, false estimates of power, and that their real effect is to increase the difficulty of administration and to diminish the happiness and security of the governed for the passing interest or for the vanity of those who govern..." - Talleyrand
Les choses sont contre nous
"Follow your bliss." - Joseph Campbell
"Religions, in fact, like castles, sunsets and women, never reach their maximum of beauty until they are touched by decay." - H.L. Mencken
"And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.'" - Kurt Vonnegut
"One walks the streets knowing that he is mad, possessed, because it is only too obvious that these cold, indifferent faces are visages of one's keepers. Here all boundaries fade away and the world reveals itself for the mad slaughterhouse that it is. The treadmill stretches away to infinitude, the hatches are closed down tight, logic runs rampant, with bloody cleaver flashing. The air is chill and stagnant, the language apocalyptic. Not an exit sign anywhere; no issue save death. A blind alley at the end of which is a scaffold."
- Henry Miller, "Tropic of Cancer"".
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