"A patriotic song is an emotion and you must not embarrass an audience with it, or they will hate your guts."

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Irving Berlin

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“No man who is correctly informed as to the past will be disposed to take a morose or desponding view of the present.”
“There is truth, my boy. But the doctrine you desire, absolute, perfect dogma that alone provides wisdom, does not exist. Nor should you long for a perfect doctrine, my friend. Rather, you should long for the perfection of yourself. The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.”
“The universe itself is God and the universal outpouring of its soul”

Source : "De Natura Deorum" by Cicero (i. 15),
“Those who say there's nothing like a nice cup of tea for calming the nerves never had *real* tea. It's like a syringe of adrenaline straight to the heart!”
“I know my mind is made of matter but I need to know exactly what is the matter at it's core? Because my heart is just a muscle and simply put, it's sore.”

Source : Song: Rain Check, Album: Educated Guess, 2004
“I'm just really tiny. People hate me, because I just sit. I'm eating, I'm eating, I'm eating and then I just... sit. And I don't gain a thing.”
“Love is a trick played on us by the forces of evolution. Pleasure is the bait laid down by the same. There is only power. Power is of the individual mind but the mind's power is not enough. Power of the body decides everything in the end and only might is right.”
“As for the largest-hearted of us, what is the word we write most often in our cheque-books? "Self.”

Source : Eden Phillpotts (1918). “A Shadow Passes”

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