"I could not sleep when I got on such a hunt for an idea until I had caught it; ...This was a kind of passion with me, and it has stuck by me; for I am never easy now, when I am handling a thought, till I have bounded it north, and bounded it south, and bounded it east, and bounded it west."

-- Abraham Lincoln

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“I couldn't understand a sense of unease that multiplied until I could hear my heart beating.”
“Music is natural law as related to the sense of hearing.”

Source : Anton Webern (1975). “The path to the new music”, European Amer Music Dist Corp
“Pitching... sometimes I did so poorly, it brought me to tears”
“The coming change can only come through a revolution, because the possessing class will not allow a peaceful change to take place; still we are willing to work for peace at any price, except at the price of liberty.”

Source : Lucy Eldine Parsons (2004). “Freedom, Equality and Solidarity”, Charles H Kerr Publishing Company
“Are we asserting the easy dominion of our civilization over all times and all places, as signs that we casually absorb as a form of loot?”

Source : Martha Rosler (2004). “Decoys and Disruptions: Selected Writings, 1975-2001”, p.270, MIT Press
“I believe that the memoir is the novel of the 21st century; itâ€™s an amazing form that we havenâ€™t even begun to tapâ€¦weâ€™re just getting started figuring out what the rules are.”
“We become what we repeatedly do.”

Source : Sean Covey (1999). “Daily Reflections For Highly Effective Teens”, p.2, Simon and Schuster
“I despair at the rise of modern violence. I truly give in to despair at times, that deep, futureless pit of despair.... I watch the American slaughterhouse, the casual attacks on popes, presidents, and uncounted others, and I wonder if there are many more out there with the Ability or if butchery has simply become the modern way of life.”

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