"First guitars tend to be like first loves: ill-chosen, unsuitable, short-lived and unforgettable."

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Source : Tim Brookes (2007). “Guitar: An American Life”, p.7, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

Tim Brookes

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“If there is a lesson in our story it is that the manipulation, according to strictly self-consistent rules, of a set of symbols representing one single aspect of the phenomena may produce correct, verifiable predictions, and yet completely ignore all other aspects whose ensemble constitutes reality...”
“The great body of physical science, a great deal of the essential fact of financial science, and endless social and political problems are only accessible and only thinkable to those who have had a sound training in mathematical analysis, and the time may not be very remote when it will be understood that for complete initiation as an efficient citizen of one of the new great complex worldwide States that are now developing, it is as necessary to be able to compute, to think in averages and maxima and minima, as it is now to be able to read and write.”
“We must spread our principles, not with words but with deeds, for this is the most popular, the most potent, and the most irresistible form of propaganda.”
“Worrying about the future is like trying to eat the hole in a doughnut. It's munching on what isn't.”
“What they frequently want to do with a movie is, they want to cut out the valleys and just show the peaks. And valleys are important; the valleys make the peaks stand out.”
“Higher education is confronting challenges, like the economy is, about the need for a higher number of more adequately trained, more highly educated citizenry.”
“If all women on earth woke up tomorrow feeling truly positive and powerful in their own bodies, the economies of the globe would collapse overnight.”

Source : Laurie Penny (2011). “Meat Market: Female Flesh Under Capitalism”, p.9, John Hunt Publishing
“I believe there is a time for meditation in cathedrals of our own.”

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