"Reign of blows cascading down upon your shoulders Far too many men dressed up as soldiers The lamb is brought to the ground Under the weight of the Crown A crown of thorns and dark deeds The swastika and the hammer and sickle Are symbols that reap only weeds"

-- Andy Partridge

#Weed Quotes #Dark Quotes #Blow Quotes

“To divide one's life by years is of course to tumble into a trap set by our own arithmetic. The calendar consents to carry on its dull wall-existence by the arbitrary timetables we have drawn up in consultation with those permanent commuters, Earth and Sun. But we, unlike trees, need grow no annual rings.”
“Wherever you find something extraordinary, youâ€™ll find the fingerprints of a great teacher.”
“The virtuoso element in jazz playing, all those very fast runs in the upper extremes, simply doesn't appeal to me. That's why I don't want to make my concerto "virtuosic" in the sense of a technical show-off. I want a beautiful sound and a melodic and lyrical line. I am more interested in the way someone can play musically.”
“Eddie's up there. He's lyin' to somebody, he's cheatin' somebody, and he's stolen all of our hearts.”
“They would grow up grappling with ways of living with what happened. They would try to tell themselves that in terms of geological time it was an insignificant event. Just a blink of the Earth Woman's eye. That Worse Things had happened. That Worse Things kept happening. But they would find no comfort in the thought.”
“I could sit toe to toe at a potato table with anybody.”
“In 1958, I came to Chicago where I have remained.”
“Given that evolution is a fact, this lack of evolution needs to be explained.”

Source : "Scientists discover organism that hasn’t evolved in more than 2 billion years" by Stuart Wolpert, newsroom.ucla.edu. February 2, 2015.

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