"So I went ahead and made me a guitar. Igot me a cigar box, I cut me a round hole in the middle of it, takeme a little piece of plank, nailed it onto that cigar box, and I gotme some screen wire and I made me a bridge back there and raised itup high enough that it would sound inside that little box, and got mea tune out of it. I kept my tune and I played from then on."

-- Lightnin' Hopkins

#Cutting Quotes #Guitar Quotes #Bridges Quotes

“Nowadays the world is becoming increasingly materialistic, and mankind is reaching toward the very zenith of external progress, driven by an insatiable desire for power and vast possessions. Yet by this vain striving for perfection in a world where everything is relative,they wander even further away from inward peace and happiness of the mind.”
“Either Stone Age man was a technological wizard, who carefully removed his technological achievements so as not to upset his inferior progeny, or our population dwindled from a once astronomical size to the mere three billions of today.”

Source : "Population Density and Growth". "Science", Vol 133, June 16, 1961.
“What we make testifies who we are. People can sense care and can sense carelessness.”
“Captive people have a need for song.”
“Almost anything makes me laugh, especially jokes at my own expense. And I will never, ever admit to being ticklish anywhere.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother.”
“I feel blessed to be having a really easy pregnancy.”
“It is the responsibility of the citizens to support their government. It is not the responsibility of the government to support its citizens.”

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