"You don't appreciate home until you leave it and, let me tell you, you can't appreciate life till you've almost left it! Some people hope and die with their song still in them. I used to think that happiness resulted when my earnings matched my yearnings! But not anymore!"

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Source : "Patsy Cline". Book by Ellis Nassour, 1981.

Patsy Cline

#Song Quotes #Home Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed, as they are in almost every country in Europe.”
“Assault weaponsâ€”just like armor-piercing bullets, machine guns, and plastic firearmsâ€”are a new topic. The weapons' menacing looks, coupled with the public's confusion over fully automatic machine guns versus semi-automatic assault weaponsâ€”anything that looks like a machine gun is assumed to be a machine gunâ€”can only increase the chance of public support for restrictions on these weapons. In addition, few people can envision a practical use for these weapons.”
“Jazz stands for freedom. It's supposed to be the voice of freedom: Get out there and improvise, and take chances, and don't be a perfectionist - leave that to the classical musicians.”
“The most important thing for me is having a relationship with God. To know that the owner, the creator of the universe loves you, sent His Son to die for your sins; that's very empowering. Knowing Him and knowing that He loves me gives me encouragement and confidence to move forward.”
“Our minds are as much given to laziness as our bodies.”
“Religion is still parasitic in the interstices of our knowledge which have not yet been filled. Like bed-bugs in the cracks of walls and furniture, miracles lurk in the lacunae of science. The scientist plasters up these cracks in our knowledge; the more militant Rationalist swats the bugs in the open. Both have their proper sphere and they should realize that they are allies.”
“Indeed, the "whole bourgeoisie" on whose behalf the government was acting as its "committee" was a composite of a vast multitude of businessmen appearing as a conglomeration of many different and divergent groups and interests.”

Source : Paul A. Baran (1968). “Political Econ of Growth”, p.93, NYU Press
“There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.”

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