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“If a man tried to take his time on earth and prove before he died, what one man's life could be worth, well I wonder what would happen to this world?”
Source : Song: I Wonder What Would Happen To This World, Album: Living Room Suite, 1978
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“Somebody said the prospect of eminent death has a wonderful clarifying effect on the mind. And I don't know if that's true, but I do think it probably causes some changes, some evolution in the way a person works. But on a day-by-day basis, I just still enjoy doing what I'm doing.”
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“A guy friend and I went to California Pizza Kitchen, and a group of pretty girls came over to us and said, 'You guys are gay, right?”
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“Affection makes fools. Always, without exception, love digs a channel that's sooner or later flooded by the briny water of despair.”
Source : Sonya Hartnett (2006). “Surrender”, Candlewick Press (MA)
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“There's a direct relationship between the ballot box and the bread box, and what the union fights for and wins at the bargaining table can be taken away in the legislative halls.”
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“I bring good tidings to our beloved Prophet Muhammad: Allah's promise and the Prophet's prophecy of our victory in Palestine over the Jews and over the oppressive Zionists has begun to come true.”
Source : "amas Leader Khaled Mash'al at a Damascus Mosque: The Nation of Islam Will Sit at the Throne of the World and the West Will Be Full of Remorse When It Is Too Late". Address at the Al-Murabit Mosque in Damascus, www.memri.org. February 3, 2006.
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“It is the first vision that counts. The artist has only to remain true to his dream and it will possess his work in such a manner that it will resemble the work of no other... for no two visions are alike, and those who reach the heights have all toiled up steep mountains by a different route. To each has been revealed a different panorama.”
Source : Albert Pinkham Ryder (1961). “Albert Pinkham Ryder: Exhibition April 8-May 12, 1961”
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“Noblest minds are easiest bent.”