"When you're in [ Bahamas], it feels like a bunch of islands, with keys and things like that. It's an existential archipelago. It's funny, you try to escape who you are and where you're from, but it's always part of your social DNA."

-- Tavares Strachan

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“Insanity and psychosis can no longer be respected as meaningful [terms] - but are used by limited individuals in positions of social power to describe ways of behaving and thinking that are alien, threatening, and obscure to them.”
“The secular university is scandalized by the claims of revelation. Those who have, for whatever historical reasons, become seekers-on-principle, cannot tolerate the allegation that truth is a gift. To have to receive offends those who have determined to take.”
“There is no doubt that even the greatest musical geniuses have sometimes worked without inspiration. This guest (inspiration) does not always respond to the first invitation. We must always work, and a self-respecting artist must not fold his hands on the pretext that he is not in the mood. If we wait for the mood, without endeavouring to meet it half-way, we easily become indolent and apathetic. We must be patient, and believe that inspiration will come to those who can master their disinclination.”
“I think that parents only get so offended by television because they rely on it as a babysitter and the sole educator of their kids.”
“Hindsight is good, foresight is better; but second sight is best of all.”
“There is a state that is able to understand the demand in the economy. That state should use prices as an instrument for implementation of this understanding.”
“Long term success is a direct result of what you achieve everyday. Goals provide your daily routine”
“Two warm bodies and one cold bottle of champagne will produce something more wonderful than would happen without the champagne.”

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