"The reason that men are so slow to confess their vices is because they have not yet abandoned them."

-- Henry Ward Beecher

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“Honour is purchas'd by the deeds we do.”

Source : Christopher Marlowe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Christopher Marlowe (Illustrated)”, p.1004, Delphi Classics
“People have often assumed that for music to be emotionally powerful it has to come directly from a human hand, whereas I disagree with that, and enjoy proving these people wrong. This project is an excellent way of exploring that area more.”

Source : "Squarepusher Makes Music with Robots, for Robots". "Squarepusher × Z-MACHINES" promo video, motherboard.vice.com. April 2, 2014.
“Too much apparatus, designed to guide us in experiments and to supplement the exactness of our senses, makes us neglect to use those senses...The more ingenious our apparatus, the coarser and more unskillful are our senses. We surround ourselves with tools and fail to use those which nature has provided every one of us.”
“The requirements of the theatre are very great--a strong constitution, energy and unflagging purpose, charm of feature, these alone do not necessarily mean anything, and they must not be relied upon as assurances of an easy conquest of the public heart. It is not only a question of fitness for the work, but of long years of most diligent effort to master the technique of the theatre, and to develop whatever of the art instinct we may possess upon the simplest, broadest, and most human lines.”
“After 17' is a song I wrote when my first daughter went to college, so that's kind of where I'm at in that part of my life. If you listen to that song and knew anything about me, you'd say, 'Oh yeah, he wrote that about his daughter,' but I try not to write them that they are so specific that they wouldn't apply to anybody that has a child.”
“People have tried to control other people by trapping them with debt. A loan can become a harmful and dangerous weapon.”
“Howbeit, this one thing, son, I assure you on my faith, that if the parties will at hands call for justice, then, all were it my father stood on the one side, and the devil on the other, his cause being good, the devil should have right.”
“We wouldn't be as far along as a country if we didn't take on some of Martin Luther King's ways that he instilled in us.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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