"I have always believed that the material world is governed by nonmaterial sources, so that in that sense 'English Music' is an exercise in the spiritual as well as the material. I have always been attracted to the Gothic and spiritual imagination, and I've always been interested in visionaries."

-- Peter Ackroyd

#Spiritual Quotes #Exercise Quotes #Imagination Quotes

“When I die, my only wish is that Cambodia remain Cambodia and belong to the West. It is over for communism, and I want to stress that.”

Source : "Day of Reckoning". "Far Eastern Economic Review" Magazine, October 1997.
“If Romney wants to make me responsible for ObamaCare, I've said I would be proud to be responsible for it.”
“Racism is a blight on the human conscience. The idea that any people can be inferior to another, to the point where those who consider themselves superior define and treat the rest as subhuman, denies the humanity even of those who elevate themselves to the status of gods.”
“You married me...but you didn't marry what you could make out of me.”
“Iâ€™m pissed off at my Republican family back in North Carolina, several of whom came to my wedding, but who went right back and are voting for homophobes and acting like it doesnâ€™t matter. It does matter and itâ€™s time for the queers in this country to start saying so to their families. I think weâ€™ve all cut them too much slack for far too long.”
“A house that has a library in it has a soul.”
“I'm a West Indian mum and West Indian mums will go to the wall for their children.”

Source : "Diane Abbott: I sent my son to private school so he wouldn't end up in a gang". www.mirror.co.uk. June 21, 2010.
“There is more in the education of children than the everlasting iteration of the word "don't!"”

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