"When I started to pick up the bass, it was purely by random chance."

-- Eberhard Weber

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“Formula for failure: Try to please everybody.”
“The world understands that our country could solve all conflicts with military solutions, but we won't because we have leaders and we have a moral responsibility but we have also have a political - we have a political leader who is scared and who is raised on the idea that American force is the true evil.”
“Our desires are never wholly transparent, even to ourselves.”

Source : Mark Kingwell (2000). “The World We Want: Restoring Citizenship in a Fractured Age”, p.42, Rowman & Littlefield
“It's not the fur or the fangs that make you a monster, not always. Sometimes, it's just where you draw the line.”
“But when you realize that the story of your life could be told a thousand different ways, that you could tell it over and over as a tragedy, but you choose to call it an epic, that's when you start to learn what celebration is. When what you see in front of you is so far outside of what you dreamed, but you have the belief, the boldness, the courage to call it beautiful instead of calling it wrong, that's celebration.”
“The romantics were reacting against a modern culture that divided individuals from themselves (through specialisation in the division of labor), from others (the competitive market place) and from nature, which had been reduced down to a machine through technology. The antidote to such division is unity and wholeness, which means feeling at home again in the world.”

Source : "Diotima’s child". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. September 21, 2012.
“Sixteen candles make a lovely light But not as bright as your eyes tonight.”
“I don't want to hear what the price of meat is.”

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