"Many men without morals have attacked religion because it was contrary to their inclinations. Many wise men have despised it because it seemed to them ridiculous. Many persons have regarded it with indifference, because they have never felt its true disadvantages. But it is as a citizen that I attack it, because it seems to me harmful to the happiness of the state, hostile to the march of the mind of man, and contrary to sound morality, from which the interests of state policy can never be separated."

-- Baron d'Holbach

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“And that's the soulful thing about playing: you offer something to somebody. You don't know if they'll like it, but you offer it.”
“One can go back toward safety or forward toward growth.”
“We want to be seen as more than just martial artists, or bad stereotype token roles in American TV and movies.”

Source : "Biography/ Mini Bio". www.imdb.com.
“Knowing what to do and not doing it is the same as not knowing what to do.”
“Music, feelings of happiness, mythology, faces worn by time, certain twilights and certain places, want to tell us something, or they told us something that we should not have missed, or they are about to tell us something; this imminence of a revelation that is not produced is, perhaps, 'the aesthetic event'.”
“There's nothing that can prepare you for fame and for the music business at any point in history.”
“...the stronger our gun control laws are, the fewer acts of violence....”

Source : "Connecticut school shooting reignites gun control debate". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. December 16, 2012.
“The American people, North and South, went into the [Civil] war as citizens of their respective states, they came out as subjects ... what they thus lost they have never got back.”

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