"Good music always defeats bad luck"

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Source : Jack Vance (1983). “Suldrun's Garden”

Jack Vance

#Music Quotes #Luck Quotes #Defeat Quotes

“I think being on a show like Game of Thrones for six years, I've gone through that whole hype thing, and I know that it doesn't do you any good creatively. You've just got to stay focused on the character and the script and your work. As humble and as grateful as I am for so many people watching it, and that there's so much love and attention, it's best for my own sanity and creativeness to try and keep that at bay.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“One wonders why Christians today get off so easily. Is it because unchristian Americans are that much better than unchristian Romans, or is our light so dim that the tormentor can't see it? What are the things we do that are worth persecuting?”

Source : Clarence Jordan (2003). “Essential Writings”
“I don't remember learning to read, but the first thing I remember reading is a science fiction novel.”
“Not much over Â£1,000 a month for the private soldier on operations is hardly an impressive figure.”
“There comes a time when people with values simply have to stand up. Think about Nazi, Germany. Most of those people did not believe in what Hitler was doing.”
“I don't think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.”
“Statistical science is indispensable to modern statesmanship. In legislation as in physical science it is beginning to be understood that we can control terrestrial forces only by obeying their laws. The legislator must formulate in his statutes not only the national will, but also those great laws of social life revealed by statistics.”
“It is hard to battle anger, for whatever it wants it pays from the soul.”

Source : Janet Morris, Chris Morris (2010). “The Sacred Band”, p.37, Paradise Publishing

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