"All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others."

-- Samuel Butler

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“From now on you must strive to cut out unnecessary movement. Waste in movement is wrong and will get you killed.”
“Elvis deserves a lot of credit for bringing the blues to middle America, not the Vegas stuff. The early stuff, The Sun records, and the first few RCA records. He was wonderful, he had the power, the drive, and he was so dedicated to his music.”
“In a world built on violence, one must be a revolutionary before one can be a pacifist.”

Source : "American Power and the New Mandarins". Book by Noam Chomsky, 1969.
“I think I cry when I'm angry. I let it go that way.”
“Now we cannot...discover our failure to keep God's law except by trying our very hardest (and then failing). Unless we really try, whatever we say there will always be at the back of our minds the idea that if we try harder next time we shall succeed in being completely good. Thus, in one sense, the road back to God is a road of moral effort, of trying harder and harder. But in another sense it is not trying that is ever going tobring us home. All this trying leads up to the vital moment at which you turn to God and say, "You must do this. I can't.”
“To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.”
“My sculpture can last for days or a few seconds - what is important to me is the experience of making. I leave all my work outside and often return to watch it decay.”
“All the powers of soul and body,memory, understanding, and will, interior and exterior senses, thedesires of spirit and of sense, all workin and by love...”

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