"There is no mystery whatever â€” only inability to perceive the obvious."

-- Wei Wu Wei

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“The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.”
“I think best in a hot bath, with my head tilted back and my feet up high.”
“There is no opposing brutal force to the stratagems of human reason.”
“...they told me of color, that it was an illusion of the eye, an event in the perceiver's mind, not in the object; they told me that color had no reality; indeed, they told me that color did not inhere in a physical body any more than pain was in a needle. And then they imprisoned me in darkness; and though there was no color there, I still was black, and they still were white; and for that, they bound and gagged me.”
“I believe in civil liberties for homosexuals. I guess I'd have to say I'd draw the line at letting them teach in the schools.”

Source : "In His Own Words: Jack Kemp And The Issues", www.nytimes.com. August 11, 1996.
“Marmalade in the morning has the same effect on taste buds that a cold shower has on the body.”
“If you do not want what I want, please try not to tell me that my want is wrong. Or if my beliefs are different from yours, at least pause before you set out to correct them. Or if my emotion seems less or more intense than yours, given the same circumstances, try not to ask me to feel other than I do. Or if I act, or fail to act, in the manner of your design for action, please let me be. I do not, for the moment at least, ask you to understand me. That will come only when you are willing to give up trying to change me into a copy of you.”

Source : David Keirsey (1998). “Please Understand Me 2”, Prometheus Nemesis Book Company
“That.s what Jazz music is all about.We started the Messengers because somebody had to mind the store for jazz.No America--no Jazz. It is the only culture that America has brought forth.”

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