"I didn't grasp the basic principle of being a promoter, which was: Put on music but also generate an income. I was on the dole most of the time."

-- Alex Kapranos

#Principles Quotes #Income Quotes

“The truth is that there are such things as Christian tears, and too few of us ever weep them.”
“We all must live our lives always feeling, always thinking the moment has arrived.”

Source : Song: If Not Now, Album: Tracy Chapman, 1988
“We find ourselves ethically destitute just when, for the first time, we are faced with ultimacy, the irreversible closing down of the earth's functioning in its major life systems. Our ethical traditions know how to deal with suicide, homicide and even genocide, but these traditions collapse entirely when confronted with biocide, the killing of the life systems of the earth, and geocide, the devastation of the earth itself.”
“To me love is passionate, it is honest, and it is selfless. Love is willing to completely give up your life for someone, to make sacrifices and put them first.”

Source : Interview with Ocean Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“You must understand that this war is not against Hitler or National Socialism, but against the strength of the German people, which is to be smashed once and for all, regardless of whether it is in the hands of Hitler or a Jesuit priest.”
“Art has knowledge and skills, and to come to know them is to be implicitly against a culture that is against knowledge - today's mass culture, which aims to produce a lot of consuming morons.”
“I know what you are. I've always known from the beginning, Kushiel's Chosen. It is folly, to make claim on one whom the gods have marked for their own. And unlike the others, I am no fool, to grasp at that which burns to the touch. What you have given..." she raised one hand, palm upward, the garnet seal dangling at her wrist, "... I hold in an open hand.”
“Other people apologize and don't mean t "Sorry, but you shouldn't have..." or "Sorry, but I just didn't..." They apologize while telling you that they were right all along, which is the opposite of an actual apology.”

Source : E. Lockhart (2016). “Ruby Oliver 1: The Boyfriend List”, p.146, Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.

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