"The reward is every night. The 90 minutes is such a payoff for us every night; it makes it all worth it to us. The fans who come to the shows know how much we enjoy this."

-- Gerry Beckley

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“One's mind and the earth are in a constant state of erosion, mental rivers wear away abstract banks, brain waves undermine cliffs of thought, ideas decompose into stones of unknowing, and conceptual crystallizations break apart into deposits of gritty reason.”

Source : Robert Smithson, Jack D. Flam (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, p.100, Univ of California Press
“When I get my heart rate up, I get good exercise and I think it's good for a lot of things, plus it's not hurting my hips right now.”
“It should be the highest ambition of every American to extend his views beyond himself, and to bear in mind that his conduct will not only affect himself, his country, and his immediate posterity; but that its influence may be co-extensive with the world, and stamp political happiness or misery on ages yet unborn.”
“But, in conformity to His wisdom it was right that afterwards the Prophet should be sent back from the vision of pure Unity and that he should return . . . toward the separative vision. For, He created man and jinn only that they should worship Him and know Him - and, if they remained at the degree of pure Unity, there would be none to worship Him. In this separative vision, the Worshipped and the worshipper, the Lord and the servant, the Creator and the creature are again perceived.”
“As for the work ethic, I'm just the kind of guy who takes what he does seriously. I never missed a day of school, I've rarely missed work and I played all those straight games; my streak only ended when I broke my cheekbone.”

Source : Source: alanpaul.net
“I try to sing many different kinds of songs. If I sing a batch of humorous songs, I'll throw in a deadly serious song. Or if I'm singing too many serious songs, I'll throw in a ridiculous song, to mix it up.”
“I'm a big believer in persistence, don't be greedy and, above all, work hard. It's what keeps me going.”

Source : "My nine to five: Caprice Bourret". Interview with Deany Judd, www.theguardian.com. November 27, 2009.
“At the age of fifteen my grandmother became the concubine of a warlord general.”

Source : Jung Chang (2008). “Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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