"The roughest part for me when I'm writing a song is staring at a blank page. Where am I going from here? If you're a songwriter, you have to do that every time you start a song."

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Source : Source: articles.latimes.com

Bob Weir

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“The way to get a ball past (Honus) Wagner is to hit it eight feet over his head.”
“Our lives are more like fragmentary dreams than the enactments of conscious selves. We control very little of what we most care about; many of our most fateful decisions are made unbeknownst to ourselves. Yet we insist that mankind can achieve what we cannot: conscious mastery of its existence. This is the creed of those who have given up an irrational belief in God for an irrational faith in mankind.”

Source : "Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals (The Deception: At the Masked Ball)". Book by John Gray (p. 38), August 29, 2002.
“In retrospect, all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called, licking the earth.”
“I never have planned a whole lot of future. It's one day at a time.”
“It is not big armies that win battles, it is the good ones.”

Source : Maurice de Saxe (2012). “Reveries on the Art of War”, p.27, Courier Corporation
“While helping hundreds of thousands of refugees, Red Cross volunteers undoubtedly heard stories of Nazi brutality and rumors of mass gassings and they noted those rumors and kept an eye out for any evidence of them, but they saw nothing to indicate that the rumors were true.”
“In Hindu philosophy the whole creation is regarded as the Vishnu Lila, the play of Vishnu. Lila means dance or play. Also in Hindu philosophy, they call the world illusion; and in Latin the root of the word illusion is ludere, to play.”
“So long as mankind shall continue to lavish more praise upon its destroyers than upon its benefactors war shall remain the chief pursuit of ambitious minds.”

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