"Music is what we need when language fails us, but we cannot remain silent."

-- Cornel West

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“We must slow down to a human tempo and weâ€™ll begin to have time to listen.”
“[Comedies], in the ancient world, were regarded as of a higher rank than tragedy, of a deeper truth, of a more difficult realization, of a sounder structure, and of a revelation more complete. The happy ending of the fairy tale, the myth, and the divine comedy of the soul, is to be read, not as a contradiction, but as a transcendence of the universal tragedy of man.... Tragedy is the shattering of the forms and of our attachments to the forms; comedy, the wild and careless, inexhaustible joy of life invincible.”
“There is no folly of which a man who is not a fool cannot get rid except vanity; of this nothing cures a man except experience of its bad consequences, if indeed anything can cure it.”
“I am arguing that faith as such, faith as an alleged method of acquiring knowledge, is totally invalid and as a consequence, all propositions of faith, because they lack rational demonstration, must conflict with reason.”

Source : George H. Smith (2010). “Atheism: The Case Against God”, p.120, Prometheus Books
“In Europe, anti-Americanism is much more a hobgoblin of the political, cultural, and religious elites.”

Source : "Europe's Anti-American Obsession" by Jean Francois Revel in The American Enterprise Magazine (column "The View From Abroad"), December 2003.
“I don't think I could ever go to Auschwitz, because when we took that tour of MGM, I nearly collapsed outside the Thalberg building.”

Source : Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
“No matter how much I try, I cant figure out how to not be adorable!”
“Our greatest leaders are neither dreamers nor dictators: They are, like Jefferson, those who articulate national aspirations yet master the mechanics of influence and know when to depart from dogma.”

Source : Jon Meacham (2012). “Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power”, p.20, Random House

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