"Well, it'll always be disco/electro-pop. That's what I first wanted to do when I started out as a musician in 1977. It's only ever been dance-pop that I've wanted to do."

-- Pete Burns

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“Sincere thought, real free thought, ready, in the name of superhuman authority or of humble common sense, to question the basis of what is officially taught and generally accepted, is less and less likely to thrive. It is, we repeat, by far easier to enslave a literate people than an illiterate one, strange as this may seem at first sight. And the enslavement is more likely to be lasting.”

Source : Savitri Devi (2010). “The Lightning and the Sun”, p.7, Lulu.com
“The biggest mistake you could ever make is to think you work for anyone but yourself”
“A precious place is Paradise and none may know its worth, But Eden ever longeth for the knicknacks of the earth. The angels grow quite wistful over worldly things below; They hear the hurdy-gurdies in the Candle Makers Row. They listen for the laughter from the antics of the earth; They lower pails from heaven's walls to catch the milk-maids mirth.”

Source : Nathalia Crane (1925). “The Janitor's Boy and Other Poems”
“The rains are rhythmic, coming religiously in the afternoons (after lunch has been eaten but before tea, so that the nights are washed clean-black with bright pinpoints of silver starlight hanging over a restless, grateful earth).”

Source : Alexandra Fuller (2014). “Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: Picador Classic”, p.202, Pan Macmillan
“We donâ€™t read and write poetry because itâ€™s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race.”
“Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty.”
“Nothing is bigger than life. There's nothing noble in death. What's noble about never seeing the sunshine again? What's noble about having your legs and arms blown off? What's noble about being an idiot? What's noble about being blind and deaf and dumb? What's noble about being dead?”

Source : Dalton Trumbo (2007). “Johnny Got His Gun”, p.111, Kensington Publishing Corp.
“The religious situation of our people is very unstable. This is because of the lack of religious teachers and other dedicated people. As a result Fiji Indians are like an unsteady boat in a whirlpool.”

Source : "My Twenty-One Years in the Fiji Islands". Book by Totaram Sanadhya, 1991.

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