"I never refused my help to any person black or white; and I liked the office nonetheless because there were neither fees nor salary connected with it."

-- Salmon P. Chase

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“Genius is a stream bathed by the folly.”
“It is only comparatively primitive machinery that affords a stimulus, and there is already a faint period touch about Pacific 231 and Le Pas d'Acier. One feels...that Prokofieff should have written ballets about the spinning jenny and the Luddite riots; that Honegger should have been there to celebrate the opening of the Stockton and Darlington Railway and the death of Huskisson with a "Symphonie Triomphale et FunÃ¨bre".”

Source : "Music, Ho!". Book by Constant Lambert, Hogarth Press edition, "Mechanical Romanticism", pp. 209-10, 1934.
“I mean, we're all trying to find out who the hell we are, aren't we?”

Source : Robert Ludlum (2012). “The Bourne Identity: Jason Bourne Book #1”, p.598, Bantam
“I don't believe that it's true that the poor will always be with us. I think that kind of pious fatalism is just an excuse for keeping things the way they are.”
“History is like a constantly changing tree.”
“Human beings really think about relativity. That's part of what the brain does.”

Source : Source: www.psychologytoday.com
“I feel like my grandparents and parents gave me a tremendous amount. And if I can pass some of that on, then I'll be very happy.”
“You've got to concentrate on the business of entertaining and writing songs. Always think different from the next person. Don't ever do a song as you heard somebody else do it. Concentrate and practice every single day.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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