"The next chamber is full of songbirds, if I remember right. Their music is like turtleweed. It will put you to sleep if you listen to it. They sleep most of the time, so the best thing is to pass through without waking them up. If they do awaken, then you must sing loud enough to drown out their music." "Great," Han said. "Whose idea was that?" "It seemed like a good idea at the time," Crow said. "I was an excellent singer."

-- Cinda Williams Chima

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“All great achievements have one thing in common - people with a passion to succeed”
“The great purpose in life is to take your destiny out of the hands of others.”
“That which is unjust can really profit no one; that which is just can really harm no one.”

Source : Henry George (1973). “The Land Question: What it Involves, and how Alone it Can be Settled”, New York : AMS Press
“Looking at the past is like lolling in a rocking chair. It is so relaxing and you can rock back and forth on the porch, and never go forward.”
“Loneliness is necessary for pure poetry. When someone intrudes into the poet's life (and any sudden personal contact, whether in the bed or in the heart, is an intrusion) the poet loses his or her balance for a moment, slips into being what he or she is, uses his or her poetry as one would use money or sympathy. The person who writes the poetry emerges, tentatively, like a hermit crab from a conch shell. The poet, for that instant, ceases to be a dead person.”

Source : Jack Spicer, Robin Blaser (1975). “The Collected Books of Jack Spicer”, Los Angeles : Black Sparrow Press
“Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.”
“But he alone having reached our deep corruption, he alone having taken upon himself our labors, he alone having suffered the punishments due for our impieties, having recovered us who were not half dead merely, but were already in tombs and sepulchers, and altogether foul and offensive, saves us, both anciently and now, by his beneficent zeal, beyond the expectation of any one, even of ourselves, and imparts liberally of the Father's benefits-he who is the giver of life and light, our great Physician and King and Lord, the Christ of God.”
“We have battled in America since the century's turn to bring to nothing any and all Christian influences and we are succeeding. While we today seem to be kind to the Christian, remember we have yet to influence the 'Christian world' to our ends... You must work until 'religion' is synonymous with 'insanity'... It is only necessary to work incessantly upon the official, using personal defamations, wild lies, false evidences and constant propaganda to make him fight for you against the church or against any practitioner.”

Source : Lavrent Beria, Kenneth Goff “THE SOVIET ART OF BRAINWASHING: A synthesis of the Russian Textbook on Psychopolitics”, Lulu.com

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