"It is practically an axiom in psychiatry that precocious intellect combined with physical weakness can give rise to many unpleasant character traits - avarice, delusions of grandeur , and obsessive masturbation, to name just a few."

-- Sam Savage

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“And the works that endure and will endure for ever, the great masterpieces, cannot have come into being as humanity... imagines. Man is only the vessel into which is poured what "nature in general" wants to express.”

Source : Anton Webern (1975). “The path to the new music”, European Amer Music Dist Corp
“I'm not big on trying to label it [my rap] or trying to prove people otherwise. I'm just making records that I like and that I wanna make. I'm just making records that relate to me and that relate to my life. If you listen to what I'm saying I'm not talking about anything that isn't my life. I take pride in having truthful lyrics.”
“Or he can work it out as a metrical and formal exercise, but he will be disappointed in its content. The New Year's prospect fairly chills his daunting breast.”
“Inhale and hold the evening in your lungs.”

Source : Sebastian Faulks (2007). “Engleby: A Novel”, Doubleday Books
“Every stroke a tennis player plays is different, yet we perceive them as playing in a distinctive and unique way. It's what Heidegger called a certain 'how' of existing. It's ultimately always singular, and the double task of (a) getting it in view and (b) communicating it to others will inevitably be marked more often by failure than success!”

Source : "Towards hope". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. July 18, 2014.
“Don't confuse what FEELS right, for what IS right.”
“I still have my feet on the ground, I just wear better shoes.”
“Obviously radical Islamic terrorism is a big problem, but there are all sorts of kinds of horrific terrorism that take place.”

Source : Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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