"Driving that train, high on cocaine Casey Jones you'd better watch your speed Trouble ahead, trouble behind And you know that notion just crossed my mind"

-- Robert Hunter

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“I think in a sense this is a house that was built on a bad foundation. And the foundation was the Americans coming here and allowing the sacking, burning and plunder of Baghdad, for whatever reason.”
“In old days there were angels who came and took men by the hand and led them away from the city of destruction. We see no white-winged angels now. But yet men are led away from threatening destruction: a hand is put into theirs, which leads them forth gently towards a calm and bright land, so that they look no more backward; and the hand may be a little child's.”
“The purpose of government is for those who run it to plunder those who do not.”
“You can't go east and west at the same time.”
“Fools call wise men fools. A wise man never calls any man a fool.”
“It's all a game, with new rules every season.”
“My family is my strength and my weakness.”
“Let not young souls be smothered out Before they do quaint deeds And fully flaunt their pride.”

Source : Vachel Lindsay (1992). “The Congo and Other Poems”, p.38, Courier Corporation

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