"Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose."

-- Baltasar Gracian

#Wisdom Quotes #War Quotes #Anger Quotes

“Yeah. I started using them [SDD-3000s] shortly after first working with Edge on The Unforgettable Fire. Basically, I stole his sound. It wasn't a complicated rig: just a guitar he liked through a Korg SDD-3000 digital delay into a Vox. Three components, mono - that's it. The great thing about the Korgs is its three-position level switch, which lets you hit the amp with about 10 extra dB. It's more overdriven than if you just plugged the guitar straight into the amp, even when it's on bypass. But a lot of the guitar sounds on Achtung Baby were recorded through a Korg A3 effects processor.”
“Red herrings are fake clues put in place by writers and bad guys to stop you guess what's really going on. One of the most common is the mysterious death with no identifiable body - or, as I call it, the 'Dead Herring'.”
“But what began in 1941 was a process of destruction not planned in advance, not organized centrally by any agency. There was no blueprint and there was no budget for destructive measures. They were taken step by step, one step at a time. Thus came about not so much a plan being carried out, but an incredible meeting of minds, a consensus - mind reading by a far-flung bureaucracy.”
“Slowly, I've come to realize That I cannot heal my past And that fearing the unavoidable future Is pointless”
“God forbid that I should go to any heaven where there are no horses.”
“My songs can make you cry, take you by surprise at the same time, can make you dry your eyes with the same rhyme”
“A Country is not a mere territory; the particular territory is only its foundation. The Country is the idea which rises upon that foundation; it is the sentiment of love, the sense of fellowship which binds together all the sons of that territory.”

Source : Giuseppe Mazzini (2005). “The Duties of Man and Other Essays”, p.58, Cosimo, Inc.
“People in positions of power and privilege have a duty to perform at a higher level. If not them, then who?”

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