"I think the central theme about black society is that it has got elements of a defeated society"

-- Steven Biko

#Thinking Quotes #Black Quotes #Elements Quotes

“Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?”
“Note that I am not proposing that AI research be ignored or less funded.”
“Sir, The Planet [Neptune] whose position you marked out actually exists. On the day on which your letter reached me, I found a star of the eighth magnitude, which was not recorded in the excellent map designed by Dr. Bremiker, containing the twenty-first hour of the collection published by the Royal Academy of Berlin. The observation of the succeeding day showed it to be the Planet of which we were in quest.”

Source : "The Cambridge Planetary Handbook". Book by Michael E. Bakich, 2000.
“I went to visit a friend of mine, a writer name Troy Seal, a songwriting fool. He's had a ton of hits. He said, "I've got a thing I'm stuck on." ï»¿I can hear the wind a blowin' - he already had that. You and me lord, we had it all. ï»¿He only had that first verse. For some reason he was stuck. But that's how that came about.”

Source : "The Soulful DNA of Country Songwriter Donnie Fritts". Interview with Jacob Blickenstaff, www.motherjones.com. October 08, 2015.
“In the middle classes the gifted son of a family is always the poorest -- usually a writer or artist with no sense for speculation -- and in a family of peasants, where the average comfort is just over penury, the gifted son sinks also, and is soon a tramp on the roadside.”

Source : John Millington Synge (2008). “The Complete Works of J. M. Synge”, p.235, Wordsworth Editions
“Indian classical dance is sustained by a profound philosophy. Form seeks to merge with the formless, motions seek to become a part of the motionless, and the dancing individual seeks to become one with the eternal dance of the cosmos.”
“I'm definitely attracted to other Australians; I have a laid-back attitude to life that I feel is very Australian; I love a good barbie.”
“Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.”

Source : 'Histoire Amoureuse des Gaules: Maximes d'Amour' (1665) pt. 1

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