"Authority cannot be bought or sold, given or taken away."

-- James Hunter

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“You must keep a strict eye on your health; let everything else be subordinated to that.”
“I aim my arrangements at what will fit and colorfully frame the song in the best way possible.”
“Everything is exciting. Who knows what will happen next?”
“I worked at a factory owned by Germans, at coal pits owned by Frenchmen, and at a chemical plant owned by Belgians. There I discovered something about capitalists. They are all alike, whatever the nationality. All they wanted from me was the most work for the least money that kept me alive. So I became a communist.”

Source : "Khrushchev: A Career". Book by Edward Crankshaw, p. 12, 1966.
“I would die to preserve the law upon a solid foundation; but take away liberty, and the foundation is destroyed.”
“It's rare that I ever meet a musician who doesn't agree that music is a language. But it's very rare to meet a musician that really treats it like one.”

Source : "Music: It's in your head, changing your brain" By Elizabeth Landau, www.cnn.com. May 28, 2012.
“What literature can and should do is change the people who teach the people who don't read the books.”

Source : FaceBook post by A.S. Byatt from Jan 14, 2011
“I think of images as an immune system and a transit system.”

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