"I don't know much about God. But if everything does originate with God, then certainly songs do as well."

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James Taylor

#Song Quotes #Doe Quotes #Wells Quotes

“Han?” “Yeah, sweetie.” “How do you teach a man not to be a noble, long-suffering, self-sacrificing idiot?” “I don’t know, sweetie. Mostly I shoot them.” “I’ll consider that.”
“Trees in winter lose their leaves. Some trees may even fall during storms, but most stand patiently and bear their fortune.”

Source : Ming-Dao Deng (2013). “365 Tao: Daily Meditations”, p.20, Harper Collins
“Historians debate to this day whether Fidel Castro was a communist from the time he took power or only became one after he was spurned by the United States. What is not disputed is that he was always an autocrat moving ruthlessly against anyone who dared oppose him.”
“Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.”
“Playing with Paul Scholes is like playing with the light on.”
“Art functioning as propaganda is not art.”
“I write my own songs, and I only see their flaws.”
“For some slaves, the first step out of bondage is to learn to see their lives with new eyes. Their reality is a social world where they have their place and some assurance of a subsistence diet. Born into slavery, they cannot easily redefine their lives outside the frame of enslavement.”

Source : Kevin Bales (2005). “Understanding Global Slavery: A Reader”, p.4, Univ of California Press

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