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“Beware of preoccupying your heart with what it has not been created for.”
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“I was already playing the clarinet and the piano. My father's a piano player. But I wanted to play in a funk band, and the clarinet wasn't fit. So you was "Hey, man, can I sit in?" They're like, "No, man." So I started fooling around with the bass.”
Source : Source: www.pbs.org
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“Fiction is sort of a way to set the record straight, and let people at least believe that justice can be achieved and the right outcomes can occur.”
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“You can't give if your cup of inspiration isn't full.”
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“The law is a battery, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside.”
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“Nothing says hell has to be fire.”
Source : Robert Goolrick (2010). “A Reliable Wife”, p.4, Algonquin Books
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“Christianity exhorted man to set himself up against Nature, but did so in the name of his spiritual and disinterested attributes. Pragmatism exhorts him to do so in the name of his practical attributes. Formerly man was divine because he had been able to acquire the concept of justice, the idea of law, the sense of God; today he is divine because he has been able to create equipment which makes him the master of matter.”
Source : Julien Benda, Roger Kimball (2017). “The Treason of the Intellectuals”, p.57, Routledge
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“The idea that global warming is the most important problem facing the world is total nonsense and is doing a lot of harm.”
Source : Salon Interview, September 29, 2007.