"The songs worked as a different kind of rhetoric, one that could reach the fence-sitters."

-- Peter Yarrow

#Song Quotes #Different Quotes #Kind Quotes

“Bijli fails in the dead of night / Wonâ€™t help to call â€œI need a lightâ€ / Youâ€™re in Karachi now / Oh, oh youâ€™re in Karachi now. / Night is falling and you just cant see / Is this illusion or KESC / Youâ€™re in Karachi now”

Source : Kamila Shamsie (2010). “Kartographie”, p.76, ebook Berlin Verlag
“For purposes of marketing, writers are designated as poets, novelists, or something else. But writing is about matchmaking, an attempt to marry sensations with apt words.”
“I was attracted to the direct connection with history that land surveyors experience in the form of plans, field notes, and from surveying monuments from decades or even centuries in the past.”
“Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.”
“Looking back at the worst times, it always seems that they were times in which there were people who believed with absolute faith and absolute dogmatism in something. And they were so serious in this matter that they insisted that the rest of the world agree with them. And then they would do things that were directly inconsistent with their own beliefs in order to maintain that what they said was true.”

Source : Richard P. Feynman (2009). “The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist”, p.19, Hachette UK
“Believing that the rustle in the grass is a dangerous predator when it is only the wind does not cost much, but believing that a dangerous predator is the wind may cost an animal its life.”
“Many have argued that a vacuum does not exist, others claim it exists only with difficulty in spite of the repugnance of nature; I know of no one who claims it easily exists without any resistance from nature.”
“I got a drum set at the age of four. I wasn't playing that well, just kind of banging around. I just wanted to play drums and my dad got me a set. I played for several years, but I wasn't meant to be a drummer, I guess. I can play drums on my own things - obviously on some of my own records I play drums. But I didn't start playing guitar until I was 11.”

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