"Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which are so dear to you - you do not even suspect that the day has already dawned outside."

-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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“Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession.”
“We were trying to show that you should be hopeful, you should be optimistic, but you have to be consistent and persistent, because it's not the struggle of a day, a week, a month, or a year. It's the struggle of a lifetime. And so you're going to have to put in 40 or 50 years to reach that high-water mark.”

Source : "John Lewis marches on: 'Our struggle is a struggle to redeem the soul of America'". Interview with Philip Eil, www.salon.com. August 9, 2016.
“What is it that makes you want to write songs? In a way you want to stretch yourself into other peopleâ€™s hearts. You want to plant yourself there, or at least get a resonance, where other people become a bigger instrument than the one youâ€™re playing. It becomes almost an obsession to touch other people. To write a song that is remembered and taken to heart is a connection, a touching of bases. A thread that runs through all of us. A stab to the heart. Sometimes I think songwriting is about tightening the heartstrings as much as possible without bringing on a heart attack.”
“No ***** ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb ***** die for his country.”
“When I was in high school in the '50s you were supposed to be an Elvis Presley, a James Dean, a Marlon Brando or a Kingston Trio type in a button-down shirt headed for the fraternities at Stanford or Cal.”
“Maybe being married is talking to oneself with one's other self listening.”
“Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is a time to honor the greatest champion of racial equality who taught a nation - through compassion and courage - about democracy, nonviolence and racial justice.”
“When something isn't coming my way, I believe it was not meant for me.”

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