"A few feet under the ground reigns so profound a silence, and yet so much tumult on the surface!"

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Victor Hugo

#Death Quotes #Feet Quotes #Profound Quotes

“Well, Eminem, you know, I know him longer. Ive been signed to his label since 2001 and hes a good friend.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Control in modern times requires more than force, more than law. It requires that a population dangerously concentrated in cities and factorites, whose lives are filled qith cause for rebellion, be taught that all is right as it is. And so, the schools, the churches, the popular literature taught that to be rich was a sign of superiority, to be poor a sign of personal failure, and that the only way upward for a poor person was to climb into the ranks of the rich by extraordinary effort and extraordinary luck.”
“Cultural contamination that is directed outward is always seen as â€˜enlightenment.”

Source : "Glory Season". Book by David Brin, 1993.
“I like Colin Powell, I like his West Indian background, I like his intellect, I like a lot of things that he does and his style. What is at fault here is a policy that's taking this country to hell,”
“I obviously read and adore traditional fiction. I teach traditional fiction; I also teach all kinds of not-so-traditional fiction.”
“Some people can't learn to play the guitar by reading a book. You have to actually try to manage a bit and you won't do well at first.”
“Walls and barriers alone are insufficient to insure security.”

Source : Source: www.salon.com
“Looking foolish does the spirit good. The need not to look foolish is one of youth's many burdens; as we get older we are exempted from more and more.”

Source : John Updike (2012). “Self-Consciousness: Memoirs”, p.250, Random House

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