"There are those who still think they are holding the pass against a revolution that may be coming up the road. But they are gazing in the wrong direction. The revolution is behind them. It went by in the Night of Depression, singing songs to freedom."

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Source : Garet Garrett (1944). “The Revolution was”

Garet Garrett

#Song Quotes #Night Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Some of my best friends are Hindu or Buddhist or Sikh, my students as well. This is the sea in which I swim.”
“To my mind, Guernica is the most important online intellectual and literary journal in America today.”
“Grampa took Mary Ellen inside away from the crowd. "Now, child, I am going to show you what my father showed me, and his father before," he said quietly. He spooned the honey onto the cover of one of her books. "Taste," he said, almost in a whisper. . . . "There is such sweetness inside of that book too!" he said thoughtfully. "Such things...adventure, knowledge and wisdom. But these things do not come easily. You have to pursue them. Just like we ran after the bees to find their tree, so you must also chase these things through the pages of a book!”
“Vision is an important part of being a good editor, but so is teamwork and grace.”

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“I have retired but only in body. Spiritually, I still feel able.”
“Ancient boundaries are meaningless, except for political purposes; old divisions of clan and tribe are sentimental remnants of the pre-atomic age; neither creed nor color nor place of origin is relevant to the realities of modern power to utterly seek and destroy.”
“I don't know anything about music theory at all. Zero. But I don't really need to.”
“Thirty percent of the Nation's energy comes off the gulf coast.”

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