"It was the beginning of the war. I was twelve years old, my parents were alive, and God still dwelt in our town."

-- Elie Wiesel

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“And there'd be no more jokes in Music-halls To mock the riddled corpses round Bapaume.”

Source : 'Blighters' (1917)
“We had an argument once, yeah. It was the best thing that could have happened to our working relationship. After that, we understood each other and got along much better. I always respected Barry Bonds, and I wanted to let him know that I did in a certain way.”

Source : "Answer Man: Andy Van Slyke talks slugging Bonds, coaching first". Interview with David Brown, sports.yahoo.com. May 01, 2008.
“One other thing, if it's possible, as songwriters, you should also develop yourself as record producers.”
“I grew up in a village of 12 houses. We had a well and a cow.”
“At the point where I'm trying to force something and it's not happening, and I'm getting frustrated with, say, writing a poem, I can go and pick up the brushes and start painting. At the point where the painting seems to not be going anywhere, I go and pick up the guitar.”
“Nostalgia locates desire in the past where it suffers no active conflict and can be yearned toward pleasantly.”
“To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself.”
“Even if individual researchers are prone to falling in love with their own theories, the broader process of peer review and institutionalized skepticism are designed to ensure that, eventually, the best ideas prevail.”

Source : "The Science of Why We Don’t Believe Science" by Chris Mooney, www.motherjones.com. May/June 2011.

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