"These weren't college kids on acid. They were preachers, and bankers, and farmers, and the salt of American society subscribing to ideas that now seem so wild to us. These people had the most radical visions of what the future could be. And this was happening in an era we don't typically associate with sexual experimentation, or communism, or things like that."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Christine Jennings

#Kids Quotes #College Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“The people in the West are supposed to believe that Bahrain is a country whose people live a life of peace, but we suffer under a regime that does not want to hear our screaming. The people of more than 20 villages are participating in the protests. They are fed up with the fact that they cannot express their opinions freely.”
“Our works in stone, in paint, in print, are spared, some of them, for a few decades or a millennium or two, but everything must finally fall in war, or wear away into the ultimate and universal ash - the triumphs, the frauds, the treasures and the fakes. A fact of life: we're going to die. "Be of good heart," cry the dead artists out of the living past. "Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing." Maybe a man's name doesn't matter all that much.”
“Life and liberty can be as much endangered from illegal methods used to convict those thought to be criminals as from the actual criminals themselves.”
“Kindness. The only possible method when dealing with a living creature. You'll get nowhere with an animal if you use terror, no matter what its level of development may be. That I have maintained, do maintain and always will maintain. People who think you can use terror are quite wrong. No, no, terror is useless, whatever its colour â€“ white, red or even brown! Terror completely paralyses the nervous system.”

Source : Mikhail Bulgakov (2005). “The Heart of a Dog”, Vintage Books USA
“Nobody puts Roach in the corner.”

Source : "Alexandra Roach" by Kaleem Aftab, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 28, 2011.
“Something of eternal significance transpired there. Not only was the calendar of the world changed, but heaven itself and eternity were affected.”
“Clinton's pardoning of Marc Rich was off-the-wall.”
“I've been allowed to grow over the past twenty years. I've managed to avoid being trapped in one moment of my career and for that, I'm very thankful”

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