"Bacon , Locke , Descartes , Hume , and all the others knew they were giving rights to vulgarity. But in so doing in addition to caring for man's well-being they were providing rights for themselves."

-- Allan Bloom

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“I have an English literature degree. I wanted to be the next great American novelist from a very early age, but I put it aside for a while, because I got very realistic at one point.”
“When I tried to play something and screwed up, I'd hear some other note that would come into play. Then I started trying different things to find the beauty in it.”

Source : "'Dimebag' Darrell Abbott: A Larger-than-life Guitarist And Human Being" by Jon Wiederhorn, www.mtv.com. December 9, 2004.
“My business is to enjoy and have fun. And why not, if in the end everything will end, right?”
“I really did not think a thing about playing five black players to start the game; they were our best players and deserved to start. But if I knew all the misery it was going to cause me in the weeks following the game, I'd have thought long and hard about it. The players from Kentucky were gracious about it, but many of their fans and people from other parts of the country did not want to see it.”
“I've never forgotten what it's like to be in your early twenties, which is not a particularly easy time. You've left your family, you've left the strictures of high school, and you're trying to break free and form yourself but you have to support yourself as well. We don't really give enough credence to that time of life and to its troubles.”
“I think you have to be a little bit strict. You can't be friend and their parent in a lot of situations, especially in this day and age where it's so dangerous for kids. So there's a bit of sternness, I guess, in the way I raise my kids.”
“But that's one of the nice things about doing a stage show, if something doesn't work out, you have the luxury of working on it over time.”
“The farther the outward journey takes you, the deeper the inward journey must be.”

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