"I'm not somebody that has an encyclopedic knowledge of ballads and could sit around a fire and sing songs for three hours. I basically only know the songs that I've taken on and reworked and recorded."

-- Sam Amidon

#Song Quotes #Taken Quotes #Fire Quotes

“Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.”
“Sound doctrine does not enter into a hard and disobedient heart.”

Source : "The Sacred Writings of Justin Martyr".
“Ability to type on a computer terminal is no guarantee of sanity, intelligence, or common sense.”
“I read all the time. Sometimes I get asked if I've thought about writing a novel.”
“One extremely important purpose of emotions from an evolutionary perspective is to help us decide what to remember and what to forget. The cavewoman who could remember which cave had the gentle guy who gave her food is more likely to be our foremother than the cave woman who confused it with the cave that held the killer bear. The emotion of love (or something resembling it) and the emotion of fear would help secure her memories.”
“No bloody or unbloody change of society can eradicate the evil in man: as long as there will be men, there will be malice, envy and hatred, and hence there cannot be a society which does not have to employ coercive restraint.”

Source : Leo Strauss (1978). “The City and Man”, p.5, University of Chicago Press
“Beware, for as you sleep, the exhausted man will be first to reach the peak.”
“Radiance belongs to being considered precisely as beautiful: it is, in being, that which catches the eye, or the ear, or the mind, and makes us want to perceive it again”

Source : Étienne Gilson (1976). “The arts of the beautiful”, Greenwood Publishing Group

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