"What a chimaera then is man, what a novelty, what a monster, what chaos, what a subject of contradiction, what a prodigy! Judge of all things, yet an imbecile earthworm; depository of truth, yet a sewer of uncertainty and error; pride and refuse of the universe. Who shall resolve this tangle?"

-- Blaise Pascal

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“Dreaming, dreaming, dreaming -- weren't our dreams what gave us strength, hope, and desire?”
“Sometimes you're flush and sometimes you're bust, and when you're up, it's never as good as it seems, and when you're down, you never think you'll be up again, but life goes on.”
“They are a doomed race. Wars, smallpox, gross immorality, a change from old ways to new ways their fate is the common fate of the American, whether he sails the sea in the North, gallops over the plain in the West, or sleeps in his hammock in the forests of Brazil.”
“I am not concerned with dodging the odium of the word. The proposed definition of democracy is socialistic . . . (democracy) should be characterized not so much socialistic, as unscrupulously and loyally nationalistic.”
“I have to think as Bugs Bunny, not of Bugs Bunny.”
“A lot of people see electronic music as a flavor of the week, but it can be more than that - has to be more than that.”

Source : "Kaskade Talks Corporate Influence on Dance Music: Some 'Don't Care if They're Slinging Fried Chicken or EDM' (Q&A)". Interview with Eddie Kim, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 10, 2013.
“Why did the Lord inspire Mormon (or Moroni or Alma) to include that in his record? What lesson can I learn from that to help me live in this day and age?”
“You cannot take any people, of any color, and exempt them from the requirements of civilization - including work, behavioral standards, personal responsibility, and all the other basic things that the clever intelligentsia disdain - without ruinous consequences to them and to society at large.”

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