"The trouble with records is that they're too short."

-- Mahalia Jackson

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“There is not a power in Europe, no not even Bonaparte's that is so unlimited [as the British monarchy].”

Source : "Charles James Fox" by L. G. Mitchell, London: Penguin, (p. 194), 1997.
“An art of expression should begin with childhood, and the lucid use of one's mother tongue should be typical of that art. The sense of reality should be strengthened from the beginning, yet by no means at the cost of those lofty illusions we call patriotism, veneration, love.”

Source : Louis Sullivan, Robert Twombly (1988). “The Public Papers”, p.156, University of Chicago Press
“Dead yesterdays and unborn tomorrows, why fret about it, if today be sweet.”
“No one is fighting for my freedom unless they are doing it on my soil.”
“I'll long remember the crestfallen look of a pious student when I told him the faculty of a divinity school he planned to attend included a large number of avowed atheists.”
“I don't know if I have a problem expressing joy, but the difficulty is in making an album, a piece of music that really does reflect life rather than the one dimension. I have a problem in trying to make a complete trip record.”

Source : Source: www.excellentonline.com
“You canâ€™t change the world, but you can change yourself. That adage suits consumer capitalism perfectly, since the illusion of changing ourselves is a successfully maintained through shopping.”
“I'm not afraid to write about madness. I always figure that whatever most embarrasses you is something that everyone can relate to, really...because we're just not that different. So if you think, 'Oh my god, this is so embarrassing. I can't possibly talk about that,' and you write about it, the audience is gonna be like, 'that happened to me!”

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