"Music has a bonding power, it's primal social cement"

-- Oliver Sacks

#Social Quotes #Bonding Quotes #Cement Quotes

“As far as i am concerned, i am in the knowledge that death can never extinguish the torch which i have lit in Ghana and Africa. Long after i am dead and gone, the light will continue to burn and be borne aloft, giving light and guidance to all people”
“The bomb lives only as it is falling.”

Source : "Use of Weapons". Book by Iain Banks, www.theguardian.com. September 13, 1990.
“I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value.”
“I know the police cause you trouble They cause trouble everywhere But when you die and go to heaven You find no policeman there”
“Consistency is a virtue for trains.”

Source : Stephen Vizinczey (1988). “Truth and Lies in Literature: Essays and Reviews”, p.83, University of Chicago Press
“I'm obsessed with cooking shows, even though they make everything look so easy when it isn't.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“People shouldn't dwell on the past. It's enough to try your best in all that you're doing now.”
“To the American people of 1789, their nation promised a new way of life: each individual a free man; each having the right to seek his own happiness; a republican form of government in which the people would be sovereign; and no arbitrary power over people's lives. Less than two hundred years later, almost every aspect of the dream has been lost.”

Source : charles a. reich (1970). “the greening of america”

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