"Music helps us understand where we have come from but, more importantly, what has happened to us."

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Source : Simon van Booy (2014). “The Secret Lives of People in Love”, p.27, Oneworld Publications

Simon Van Booy

#Helping Quotes

“Persecution for opinion is the master vice of society.”
“I don't see gender as the most significant fact of human existence.”
“When it came to slaughtering sacred cows with such crude yet perfect musical precision, there was no one better than Frank. I wonder what songs he's teaching the angels right now? Good luck God! You've got your hands full this time.”
“I'm not sure what fame is for if it isn't to focus on charitable work.quot;”
“Little else matters than to write good code.”
“I'm only asking you to stop every so often and turn off your mobile device, put down the Angry Birds and the Words with Friends and take a moment. Stop to look up and look around. Pause and check in with yourself - and spend a moment there.”
“We can have intellectual individualism and the rich cultural diversities that we owe to exceptional minds only at the price of occasional eccentricity and abnormal attitudes. When they are so harmless to others or to the Stateas those we deal with here, the prices is not too great. But freedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter much. That would be a mere shadow of freedom. The test of its substance is the right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the existing order.”
“An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.”

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