"Your temptations are from the devil and from Hell; but your sufferings and afflictions are from God and Heaven."

-- Pio of Pietrelcina

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“If I'm very drunk, I can improvise. But generally speaking, no. Generally speaking, almost all of my work is material that was first done on the printed page. And the shorter ones that you might call poems, I had a stretch from '79, '80, for five or six years, where I wrote a lot of poetry as such. Simply because I was asked to.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“It's amazing how fast generations lose sight of other generations. One of the first things the young composers who come to work with me say is that they want to write music people will like, instead of gaining their credentials by being rejected by the audience.”
“It is far better for a man to go wrong in freedom than to go right in chains.”

Source : Leonard Huxley, Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.407, Cambridge University Press
“Democracy no longer works for the poor if politicians treat them as a separate race.”
“Nothing is so well learned as that which is discovered.”
“If a citizen who's committed many crimes, instead of going to prison would say something against me or another politician, or against any other well known person ... I don't want to be disrespectful to anybody but someone who's killed twenty people could easily tell a lie.”

Source : "Interview with Giulio Andreotti, Italian Former Prime Minister". Interview with Bill Delaney, www.cnn.com. September 24, 1995.
“Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals.”
“Take sides! Always take sides! You will sometimes be wrong - but the man who refuses to take sides must always be wrong.”

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