"You've got to learn to leave the table When love's no longer being served"."

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Source : Song: You've Got To Learn

Nina Simone

“Memory weaves and traps us at the same time according to a scheme in which we do not participate: we should never speak of our memory, for it is anything but ours; it works on its own terms, it assists us while deceiving us or perhaps deceives up to assist us.”
“The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes, who are highly influential and tend to view religion as primitive superstition. They believe that science has left atheism as the only respectable intellectual stance.”
“If we can effectively kill the national pride and patriotism of just one generation, we will have won that country. Therefore, there must be continued propaganda abroad to undermine the loyalty of citizens in general, and teenagers in particular. By making drugs of various kinds readily available, by creating the necessary attitude of chaos, idleness and worthlessness, and by preparing him psychologically and politically, we can succeed.”
“We love the night and its quiet; and there is no night that we love so well as that on which the moon is coffined in clouds.”

Source : Fitz James O'brien (2015). “The Lost Room”, p.18, Fitz James O'brien
“Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.”
“These Seattle Seahawks wide receivers have been called pedestrian, they've been called no-namers, but they always come up with the big play.”
“Childbearing should be a punishable crime against society, unless the parents hold a government license. All potential parents should be required to use contraceptive chemicals, the government issuing antidotes to citizens chosen for childbearing.”
“I am going to leave everything on the field. I am going everywhere, and I am going to listen to everybody.”

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