"Do we have to talk in order to agree or agree in order to talk?"

-- Jose Bergamin

#Order Quotes #Agree Quotes

“My mom would give me a piece to play, but I wouldn't do any theory because when it came time to do it I would sneak back upstairs and watch TV. So, I had these kind of nonchalant lessons for years, then it just started soaking in.”
“[Shahrazad] had perused the books, annals and legends of preceding Kings, and the stories, examples and instances of by gone men and things; indeed it was said that she had collected a thousand books of histories relating to antique races and departed rulers. She had perused the works of the poets and knew them by heart; she had studied philosophy and the sciences, arts and accomplishments; and she was pleasant and polite, wise and witty, well read and well bred.”

Source : Richard Francis Burton, John Payne, Andrew Lang, Jonathan Scott (2015). “One Thousand and One Nights - Complete Arabian Nights Collection (Delphi Classics)”, p.4187, Delphi Classics
“My aim was to make money for the bank. You lose track of the amounts involved when you are engaged in this kind of work.”
“Winning the golden boot is almost what's expected of me.”
“Solyndra will be remembered in the history books as a sad hallmark of a newly installed administration that felt it was above the rules, ***** for positive headlines rather than focused on delivering results.”
“I'm not working now, so I'm sort of facing the unknown.”
“When the Ngdanga tribe of West Africa hold their moon love ceremonies, the men of the tribe bang their heads on sacred trees until they get a nose bleed, which usually cures them of that.”
“I understand politically that uprisings take place as a combination of spontaneity and preparation, not that preparation is more important than spontaneity.”

Source : "“Exiles From the Future”: An Interview with Vijay Prashad". Interview with Andrew Stewart, www.counterpunch.org. August 17, 2016.

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