"And in this battle, Brother William (Guillaume), Master of the Templars, lost an eye; and he had lost the other on the previous Shrove Tuesday; and that Lord died as a consequence, may God absolve him! And you should know that there was at least an acre of land behind the Templars, which was so covered with arrows fired by the Saracens, that none of the ground could be seen."

-- Jean de Joinville

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“Perhaps God does with His heavenly garden as we do with our own. He may chiefly stock it from nurseries, and select for transplanting what is yet in its young and tender age--flowers before they have bloomed and trees ere they begin to bear.”
“If a little is great, and a lot is better, then way too much is just about right!”
“Comedy is ridiculously hard. And if the rhythm is not right, if the music or the line is not right, it's not funny.”
“There are Millions of people in this world. Then why are you born? The reason is, Allah is expecting something from you, which is not possible by Millions.”
“It often seems, looking back, that the unexpected comes to define us, the paths we didn't see coming and may have wandered down by mistake. The older we get the more willing we are to follow those, to surprise ourselves.”
“Misery loves company, and madness calls it forth.”
“I tend to not want to put labels or categories on the music, only because people come with preconceived ideas about what they're going to hear, or won't come for this reason.”
“I developed a resistance to authority. Not to discipline - I learned that. But to authority. I like to think for myself. And I like to cause trouble.”

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