"I had always loved music. I grew up listening to classic country, Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard. My dad loved Vern Gosdin and Keith Whitley. So I kept going to class and started getting totally into playing guitar and teaching myself these songs."

-- Jake Owen

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“I love that men like to look at women, that they love sports, that they need to know the inner workings of mechanical objects. I love the whole makeup of men - that they never mature and are always just boys.”
“Of course the barbarians' aim of world domination has not escaped the attention of the Europeans, perhaps because unlike us they are closer to the walls.”
“The universe is an emanation of mind. As human consciousness evolves in an accelerated spiral, we are being compelled to realize that our minds are manifesting reality to an ever-increasing extent- our collective shadow-projections of wasteful technologies, wars, and weaponry reflect subtler interior regions of our psyche and the discordant deceptions in our intimate relationships. If this interpretation is valid, it forces upon us a concomitant responsibility, a grave burden.”
“Concentration is the creation of the instrument; meditation is the right use of it; contemplation transcends it.”

Source : Christmas Humphreys (2012). “Exploring Buddhism”, p.179, Routledge
“The problem of values arises only when men try to fit together their need to be social animals with their need to be free men. There is no problem, and there are no values, until men want to do both. If an anarchist wants only freedom, whatever the cost, he will prefer the jungle of man at war with man. And if a tyrant wants only social order, he will create the totalitarian state.”
“wisdom ain't seeing what's in your face, but recognizing what's about to come!”
“If I didn't play baseball I don't know what I would do. It just doesn't seem right if I go a day without baseball.”
“Call me an extremist but killing a few hundred million people seems like the sort of method that might have unintended consequences.”

Source : Usenet article, 2005.

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