"Any one who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin. For, as has been pointed out several times, there is no such thing as a random numberâ€“ there are only methods to produce random numbers, and a strict arithmetic procedure of course is not such a method."

-- John von Neumann

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“Independent artists and labels have always been the trendsetters in music and the music business.”

Source : "Napster brings indie labels on board" by Dan Milmo, www.theguardian.com. June 26, 2001.
“If you don't have a moral question governing your society, then you don't have a society that is going to survive.”
“true weanedness from the world don't consist in being beat off from the world by the affliction of it, but a being drawn off by the sight of something better.”
“But it remains the case that you know what is wrong with a lot more confidence than you know what is right.”
“I can say-not as a patriotic bromide, but with full knowledge of the necessary metaphysical, epistemological , ethical, political and esthetic roots-that the United States of America is the greatest, the noblest and, in its original founding principles, the only moral country in the history of the world.”
“Confidence is a big part of any sport, but as far as sports psycholgy, I met with one last year before the season, and hell I just felt stupid after that, so I try to stay out of there.”
“Creating everlasting works is possible only being ducked in Verity; and gaining verity is possible only from the god. The one who given the ability for creation to, it is given the ability for immortality to. This ability is the substance not only of the human beings, but it can be seen in animals; birds and insects.”

Source : "The Authority". Pamphlet by Tivadar Kosztka Csontvary,
“Oh, 'twould be marvelous if the world and its moral questions were like some game board, with plain black players and white, and fixed rules, and nary a shade of grey.”

Source : Glen Cook (2007). “Chronicles of the Black Company”, p.368, Macmillan

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