"Power is the most persuasive rhetoric."

-- Friedrich Schiller

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“Some people want to go forever, I just want to burn off hard and bright.”
“Paul's One Way Out is a fresh, intelligently arranged, and satisfyingly complete telling of the lengthy (and unlikely) history of the group that almost singlehandedly brought rock up to a level of jazz-like sophistication and virtuosity, introducing it as a medium worthy of the soloist's art. Oral histories can be tricky things: either penetrating, delivering information and backstories that get to the heart of how timeless music was made. Or too often, they lie flat on the page, a random retelling of repeated facts and reheated yarns. I'm happy to say that Paul's is in that first category.”
“Who's going to rob us? A crackhead crab? A jellyfish junkie?”
“I've found that luck is quite predictable.”
“It may well be a sign of the decadence of the Church and the failure of Christianity that gifts have to be coaxed out of people, and that often they will not give at all unless they get something for their money in the way of entertainment or of goods. Giving which is real giving has a certain recklessness in it.”
“Words, especially those of a constitution, are not to be read with such stultifying narrowness.”

Source : United States v. Classic, 313 U.S. 299, (316), 1941.
“It is difficult to generalize about Islam. To begin with, the word itself is commonly used with two related but distinct meanings, as the equivalents both of Christianity, and Christendom. In the one sense, it denotes a religion, as system of beliefs and worship; in the other, the civilization that grew up and flourished under the aegis of that religion. The word Islam thus denotes more than fourteen centuries of history, a billion and a third people, and a religious and cultural tradition of enormous diversity.”

Source : Bernard Lewis (2003). “The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror”, p.3, Modern Library
“Whether it's horses or whatever it is you do, it doesn't become an art until your soul goes into what you do.”

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