"A noble craft, but somehow a most melancholy! All noble things are touched with that."

-- Herman Melville

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“Music raises in the mind of the hearer great conceptions: it strengthens and advances praise into rapture.”
“No good decision was ever made in a swivel chair.”
“I often find myself on my knees praying to something or someone to not be in control...My hotel check-in name used to be Mr BL Zebub.”

Source : "This much I know". Interview with Johnny Davis, www.theguardian.com. October 28, 2007.
“Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Nicaragua have made a tremendous leap just by rejecting the neoliberal adjustment policies, they are making a statement from the social perspective. Capital in these cases has not been protected in any way which along with non - interference of the state is what neo liberalism stands for. It has gone the other way around; they have looked for social policies from the political movements and then when they have acquired the power of those political movements they have become in charge of the State.”
“I won't quit on a player who doesn't quit on himself.”
“As you see, context is everything and nothing at the same time. Words stand alone and with each other.”
“This is what happens with a breakthrough.Â The first ones through the door often get bruised if not broken.Â Eventually, with a little political acumen and racial sensitivity and a lot of hard work, a smooth new place can emerge.”

Source : Gwen Ifill (2009). “The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama”, p.17, Anchor
“The only way you can truly control how you are seen is by being honest all the time.”

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