"In the year 1090, there was founded in Persia the religious and military order of the Assassins, whose history is one of cruelty, barbarity, and murder, and for good reason: the members were confirmed users of hashish, or marihuana, and it is from the Arabs' 'hashashin' that we have the English word 'assassin.'"

-- Harry J. Anslinger

#Religious Quotes #Military Quotes #Order Quotes

“Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.”
“It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.”
“There's a common saying that everybody deep at heart loves their mother, except sometimes we decide our actual mothers don't measure up. And so we look for a replacement.”
“The door that nobody else will go in at, seems always to swing open widely for me.”
“When the truth is found to be lies, and all the joy within you dies.”

Source : Song: Somebody To Love
“I don't know what good composition is.... Sometimes for me composition has to do with a certain brightness or a certain coming to restness and other times it has to do with funny mistakes. There's a kind of rightness and wrongness and sometimes I like rightness and sometimes I like wrongness.”
“The old Chinese proverb springs to mind - No pain, no gain.”
“It is delightful to transport one's self into the spirit of the past, to see how a wise man has thought before us”

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