"If I were to begin life again, I would devote it to music. It is the only cheap and unpunished rapture upon earth."

-- Sydney Smith

#Music Quotes #Earth Quotes #Rapture Quotes

“When you talk about state of the art, that doesn't mean a damn thing. Think about it. State of the art. "This is the state of the art brush from Winsor-Newton." Yeah, but the state of the art sucks rubber donkey lungs.”
“Taxes are a barbaric remnant of ancient times in which early farmers, tied to the land, no longer able to roam freely, unable to fight back with awkward agricultural tools the way they once could with hunting implements, became victims, first, of itinerant plunderers, then of bandits settling down beside them to become the governments we know today.”

Source : "The Unnecessary Depression". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. February 01, 2009.
“There is a comfort with design that may be a detail, rather than a building; comfort with form that is time-released and never finished. How do you represent an instruction set that will play out in time? There may be slightly different kinds of documents for representing those forms, and different skills for advocating change outside of our fee-for-service habits.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Give me a mystery - just a plain and simple one - a mystery which is diffidence and silence, a slim little bare-foot mystery: give me a mystery - just one!”
“Be reckless enough to gamble all or nothing to follow your dreams”
“Net the large fish and you are sure to have the small fry.”
“Success is a collection of small victories & disappointing setbacks. Understand the process, stay positive, & focus on the fundamentals.”
“The slave girl is reared in an atmosphere of licentiousness and fear.”

Source : Harriet Ann Jacobs (2006). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl - Literary Touchstone Classic”, p.62, Prestwick House Inc

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