"This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games. All games are basically hostile. Winners and losers. We see them all around us: the winners and the losers. The losers can oftentimes become winners, and the winners can very easily become losers."

-- William S. Burroughs

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“It is always pleasant to be urged to do something on the ground that one can do it well.”
“Music has power to create a universe or to destroy a civilization.”

Source : Katherine Neville (2015). “The Eight”, p.135, Open Road Media
“I speak for the colored women of the South, because it is there that the millions of blacks in this country have watered the soil with blood and tears, and it is there too that the colored woman of America has made her characteristic history and there her destiny is evolving.”

Source : Anna Julia Cooper, Charles C. Lemert, Esme Bhan (1998). “The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper: Including A Voice from the South and Other Important Essays, Papers, and Letters”, p.202, Rowman & Littlefield
“self-control, in every station and to every individual, is indispensable, if people would retain that equanimity of mind, which, depending on self-respect, is the essential of contentment and happiness.”
“The universe is computing its own destiny.”
“The worth of a wife is a man's good fortune;His jewels are his good children.”
“Servants, when their lords no longer sway, Their minds no more to righteous courses bend.”
“It's no secret that I've become known for my strong political views.”

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