"To wash and rinse our souls of their age-old sorrows,We drained a hundred jugs of wine.A splendid night it was . . . .In the clear moonlight we were loath to go to bed,But at last drunkenness overtook us;And we laid ourselves down on the empty mountain,The earth for pillow, and the great heaven for coverlet"

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Source : Li Po, “A Mountain Revelry”

Li Bai

#Wine Quotes #Night Quotes #Heaven Quotes

“Mathematics is much more than computation with pencil and a paper and getting answers to routine exercises. In fact, it can easily be argued that computation, such as doing long division, is not mathematics at all. Calculators can do the same thing and calculators can only calculate they cannot do mathematics.”

Source : Melvin Schwartz (2012). “Principles of Electrodynamics”, p.1, Courier Corporation
“because we don't have a Fairness Doctrine, and because we have further media consolidation, and because we have a craptastic corporate media, WE DON'T HAVE NEWS! We don't have an informed populous and we don't have a democracy... Everyone in the world knows that America, (in its current state, because of right-wingers) that the right wing arm of this country (that speaks for this country unfortunately) has no credibility when it comes to human rights or independent media.”
“Careers, children and homemaking all come above preserving your appearance. Self-preservation is at the bottom of the scale.”
“Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make.”
“I just kind of thought about doing this my whole life. I never doubted myself once. I've always been singing, and I've always wanted to be on tour with a rock band.”

Source : "McCracken Had No Rock Doubts" by Eric R. Danton, The Hartford Courant, September 1, 2005.
“In a country where the sole employer is the State, opposition means death by slow starvation. The old principle: who does not work shall not eat, has been replaced by a new one: who does not obey shall not eat.”

Source : Leon Trotsky (1937). “The Revolution Betrayed: What is the Soviet Union and where is it Going?”, p.241, Mehring Books
“I'm a grinding actor. That's how I've always viewed myself. You go from one job to the next.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Pop music, disco music, and heavy metal music is about shutting out the tensions of life, putting it away.”

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