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“Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual meaning.”
“Words are the only jewels I possess Words are the only clothes I wear Words are only the food that sustain my life Words are the only wealth I distribute among people.”
“We know that there is no absolute knowledge, that there are only theories; but we forget this. The better educated we are, the harder we believe in axioms.”

Source : Lincoln Steffens (1931). “The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens”, p.816, Heyday
“Skinheads are becoming part of our overall movement.”
“I was sitting on my own in a restaurant, when I saw a beautiful woman at another table. I sent her a bottle of the most expensive wine on the menu. She sent me a note: "I will not touch a drop of this wine unless you can assure me that you have seven inches in your pants." So I wrote back: "Give me the wine. As gorgeous as you are, I'm not cutting off three inches for anyone.”
“I used to write things that might have sounded better coming out of an older person's voice or vision. Hence, "grandpa-boy." I'm an old man, but I'm a boy. A really old boy!”

Source : Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. May 19, 2008.
“Human beings are naturally flawed when it comes to time and memory. The past is forgotten, or it is believed bad things will not recur, and people become bound in their current problems. That which afflicted the grandfathers of their grandfathers is a distant, dim thing, and not as important as present concerns, no matter how trivial.”

Source : Kristen Britain (2011). “The High King's Tomb”, p.275, Hachette UK
“The religion of humanity is love.”

Source : Giuseppe Mazzini (2009). “A Cosmopolitanism of Nations: Giuseppe Mazzini's Writings on Democracy, Nation Building, and International Relations”, p.37, Princeton University Press

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