"James Brown is important because he decorates the clock correctly and he's good with lower mathematics. Don't get me wrong - he's good."

-- Don Van Vliet

#Important Quotes #Mathematics Quotes #Clock Quotes

“We were made to believe / our faces betrayed us. / Our bodies were loud / with yellow / screaming flesh / needing to be silenced / behind barbed wire.”

Source : Janice Mirikitani (1995). “We, the Dangerous: New and Selected Poems”, Ten Speed Press
“Ignorance is servitude, because as a man thinks, so he is; a man who does not think for himself and allows himself to be guided by the thought of another is like the beast led by a halter.”
“All great enterprises have a pearl of faith at their core, and this must be ours: that Americans are still a people born to liberty. That they retain the capacity for self-government. That, addressed as free-born, autonomous men and women of God-given dignity, they will rise yet again to drive back a mortal enemy.”
“May the Lord bless you real good.”
“The only thing that kept me out of college was high school.”
“I'd rather we were rebuilding Philadelphia, as opposed to Kabul...There are American cities with serious infrastructure problems and we're not addressing them.”
“America's strength is not our diversity; our strength is our ability to unite people of different backgrounds around common principles. A common language is necessary to reach that goal.”
“You can always find time to do the thing you really, really want to do.”

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