"To be proud of virtue, is to poison yourself with the Antidote."

-- Benjamin Franklin

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“I make the songs and part of making them is singing them. But what you hear is not me. It's the song. It's through me.”

Source : "Still voice, distant life" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. November 16, 2002.
“The real value of science is in the getting, and those who have tasted the pleasure of discovery alone know what science is. A problem solved is dead. A world without problems to be solved would be devoid of science.”

Source : Frederick Soddy (1912). “Matter and energy”
“A difficult form of virtue is to try in your own life to obey what you believe to be God's will.”

Source : Reg. v. Ramsey, 1 Cababe & Ellis' Q. B. D. Rep. 145, 1883.
“My father told me ***** would cause me brain damage - because if he caught me doing it he was going to break my head.”
“He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity's sunrise.”
“Put together all the existing families and you have society. It is as simple as that. Whatever kind of training took place in the individual family will be reflected in the kind of society that these families create.”
“The novel is a prose narrative of some length that has something wrong with it.”

Source : "The Rumpus mini-interview project #102: Max Winter". Interview with Maria Anderson, therumpus.net. September 21, 2017.
“I grew up going to museums. I was privileged to discover art and artists in a very personal way.”

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