"A whole generation of veteran composers has never taken a stand or provided an example and has produced in the music academies generations of docile workers for the music industry. What can you expect from downtrodden workers who see music as a type of profession, like stenography, and not an act of creation that by its nature is subversive?"

-- Itay Talgam

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“I see the Christian world like this: we've inherited a divided map of the truth, and each of us has a piece. Our traditions teach us that no one else has a valid map and that our own church's piece shows us all the terrain and roads that exist. In fact, there is much more terrain, more roads, and more truth for us to see if we can accept and read one another's maps, fitting them together to give us a clearer picture of the larger Christian tradition.”
“Largeness is a lifelong matter. You grow because you are not content not to. You are like a beaver that chews constantly because if it doesn't, it's teeth grow long and lock. You grow because you are a grower; you're large because you can't stand to be small.”
“Why don't we bring everyone up to be caring and compassionate, to believe that we are connected with everyone and everything around us?”
“Secretary of War Stanton used to get out of patience with Lincoln because he was all the time pardoning men who ought to be shot.”
“Nobody can give a good performance unless the authors and composers have written a good part, a fact which is often overlooked.”
“There is no precedent in any modern White House for what is going on in this one: a complete lack of a policy apparatus. What you've got is everything, and I mean everything, being run by the political arm. It's the reign of the Mayberry Machiavellis.”

Source : "Bush’s Burgeoning Body Count" by Nick Turse, www.motherjones.com. November 28, 2005.
“We now live in a secular humanist theocracy. I want to change that to a government with God at its head.”

Source : "A Nation Under God" by John Sugg, www.motherjones.com. December 2005.
“Trivializing the Holocaust is the last thing I want to do.”

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