"I dedicate this to all those who did not live to tell it. And may they please forgive me for not having seen it all nor remembered it all, for not having divined all of it - from The Gulag Archipelago"

-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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“I started working with synthesizer players, and I had to find new instruments. I needed a more complex sound, so I went to a surplus place and got a bunch of hard plastic stuff and stainless steel stuff, and that stuff worked. So from that point on, from the 70s on, I've made instruments.”
“If something like one in nine Londoners is a Muslim, then I want one in nine police officers to be a Muslim. Which means we are currently about 2,000 short.”
“We pity or condemn the communist peoples of the world for being bound in the chains of doctrine. So are we. Our doctrine runs as follows: Our Way is the Only Way.”
“Always have clear lines of communication and be open to trying new ideas. Being open to new ideas is crucial to growing as an artist. If you always have the same creative habits, how will you ever excel to the next level? The answer is, you won't. Taking those creative risks reaps the most incredible rewards.”
“If you get down about the state of American culture, just remember there are still more public libraries in this country than there are McDonalds.”
“Youâ€™re hated by some, loved by others, but thatâ€™s whatâ€™s great about being different. If everybody loved you, that means youâ€™re not doing the right thing most of the time.”
“When passion is not fed, it changes to need. At this juncture, marriage becomes a fixed idea in the mind of the bourgeois, being the only means whereby he can win a woman and appropriate her to his uses.”
“Ensuring all kids have access to an effective, talented teacher needs to be a national priority.”

Source : "Presidential Teacher Corps: Building a 21st Century Teaching Force" by Sen. Michael Bennet, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 10, 2011.

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