"From high Meonia's rocky shores I came, Of poor decsent, Acoetes is my name, My sire was measly born: no oxen ploughed, His fruitful fields, nor in his pastures lowed, His whole estate within the waters lay' With lines and hooks he caught the finny prey; His art was all his livelehood, which he Thus with his dying lips bequeathed to me: In streams, my boy, and rivers take thy chance; There swims', said he, Thy whole inheritance."

-- Ovid

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“the separation of church and state grew out of a desire, not so much to protect government from religion, but to protect religion from government.”
“I have all my life been on my guard against the information conveyed by the sense of hearing -- it being one of my earliest observations, the universal inclination of humankind is to be led by the ears, and I am sometimes apt to imagine that they are given to men as they are to pitchers, purposely that they may be carried about by them.”
“Read books. Care about things. Get excited. Try not to be too down on youself. Enjoy the ever present game of knowing.”
“This constant stream of qualia we feel in our stomachs. The big-leafed plant lifts its wings to greet the planet's chemistry, the sun arrives on rooftops like a gentle stranger, rain rushes us love to love, stop to stop, these veins of leaf, hand, storm and stream, as if in pursuit of us and what we are becoming.”
“Don't stop ever loving me, you can always smoke with me.”
“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
“They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn't. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.”
“My mission has always been to do something that suits everybody.”

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