"Music is the child of prayer, the companion of religion."

-- FranÃ§ois-RenÃ© de Chateaubriand

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“The very soul of the slothful does effectually but lie drowsing in his body, and the whole man is totally given up to his senses.”
“Whenever we make changes in our surroundings, we can too easily shortchange ourselves, by cutting ourselves off from some of the sights and sounds, the shapes or textures, or other information from a place that have helped mold our understanding and are now necessary for us to thrive. Overdevelopment and urban sprawl can damage our own lives as much as they damage our cities and countryside.”

Source : Tony Hiss (2010). “The Experience of Place: A New Way of Looking at and Dealing With our Radically Changing Cities and Count ryside”, p.12, Vintage
“Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.”
“the State only aims at instilling those qualities in its public by which its demands are obeyed, and its exchequer is filled. Its highest attainment is the reduction of mankind to clockwork. In its atmosphere all those finer and more delicate liberties, which require treatment and spacious expansion, inevitably dry up and perish. The State requires a taxpaying machine in which there is no hitch, an exchequer in which there is never a deficit, and a public, monotonous, obedient, colorless, spiritless, moving humbly like a flock of sheep along a straight high road between two walls.”
“I saw a photo of the Svoboda leader, Yatseniuk [Arseniy Yatseniuk, one of Batkivschyna leaders] and Klitschko [Vitali Klitschko, UDAR party leader] together demonstrating the unity of opposition. But I can't imagine that people like Klitschko, who position themselves as Europeans, and Yatseniuk, would willingly shake the hand of a person who in public states that Jews are the main threat to European civilization. Sometimes, while looking for and respecting opposition, we can't recognize it,”
“I don't feel like myself unless I run. It's how I deal with sadness and happiness. I need it. It's like therapy.”
“In life, be a participant, not a spectator.”
“As long as a government can come and shoot you, you can't jump on the Internet to freedom.”

Source : "Lots of action on the Net -- but not much change" by Stewart Deck, cnn.com. May 28, 1998.

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