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“What we really want to do is to be left alone. We don't want Negroes around. We don't need Negroes around. We're not asking -- you know, we don't want to have them, you know, for our culture. We simply want our own country and our own society. That's in no way exploitive at all. We want our own society, our own nation....”
Source : Interview with Evelyn Rich, March 1985.
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“I only ever really follow the music, that's what I'm about, I don't think about it too much. I just wanted to make a piece to sleep through, to sort of explore that sleeping space as a listening space and to have a different encounters between our listening minds or hearing minds and music. I think that's really interesting. After that I feel I've done my job.”
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“Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.”
Source : Joseph Wood Krutch (1967). “And Even If You Do: Essays on Man, Manners & Machines”
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“Every battle is won before it is fought.”
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“You couldn't be here if stars hadn't exploded. Because the elements, the carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, iron, all the things that matter for evolution weren't created at the beginning of time. They were created in the nuclear furnaces of stars. And the only way they could get into your body is if the stars were kind enough to explode. So forget Jesus. The stars died so that you could be here today.”
Source : "A Universe From Nothing". Lawrence M. Krauss' speech at the Atheist Alliance International Convention at the Marriot Hotel Convention Center in Burbank, California, www.youtube.com. 2009.
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“I write to escape ... to escape poverty.”
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“Love is best a phantom than reality, better in the chase than caught.”
Source : Jessie Burton (2014). “The Miniaturist”, p.111, Pan Macmillan
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“The pieces that have survived, the ones that we all love, were not all popular in their time. Just look at Beethoven's late string quartets. The music that the musical community selects, however, is usually the very best.”