"... I get more respect from rap artists than I do from my own industry. I don't always write the kind of music that country executives want. Rappers are like that too .. my words come from the street, and their words come from the street. That slicked-up pop stuff doesn't come from the street, it's all pre-fab..."

-- Toby Keith

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“Last comes the class of persons, of nervous organization and enfeebled vigour, whose sensual appetite craves highly seasoned dishes, men of a hectic, over-stimulated constitution. Their eyes almost invariably hanker after that most irritating and morbid of colours, with its artificial splendours and feverish acrid gleams,-orange.”
“To believe in faeries is to step into an enchanted space where the rational mind meets the irrational heart, and all things become possible.”
“Reality shows are all the rage on TV at the moment, but thats not reality, its just another aesthetic form of fiction.”
“I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract Of inland ground, applying to his ear The convolutions of a smooth-lipped shell; To which, in silence hushed, his very soul listened intensely; for from within were heard Murmurings whereby the monitor expressed Mysterious union with its native sea. Even such a shell the universe itself Is to the ear of faith; and there are times, I doubt not, when to you it doth impart Authentic tidings of invisible things, Of ebb and flow, and ever enduring power, And central peace, subsisting at the heart Of endless Agitation.”
“There is something so beautiful inside you that if you knew it, you would fall in love with it. It is irresistible. You can truly experience that.”
“If you are an ignorant man, you are acting wisely; but if you have had any education, you are behaving like a fool.”

Source : "The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers". Book by Diogenes Laërtius, transl. by C. D. Yonge, London: H. G. Bohn, p. 196, 1853.
“Being so rational, we have created a very simple version of ourselves.”
“It is better to let 100 criminals go free than to imprison 1 innocent man.”

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