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Leonard Cohen quote: "Journalists, especially English journalists, were very cruel..."

Journalists, especially English journalists, were very cruel to me. They said I only knew three chords when I knew five!

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Government! Three-fourths parasitic and the rest stupid fumbling - oh, Harshaw concluded that man, a social animal, could not avoid government, any more than an individual could escape bondage to his bowels. But simply because an evil was inescapable was no reason to term it "good." He wished that government would wander off and get lost! (96) Robert A. Heinlein
George Orwell quote: "War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed..."
War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it. George Orwell
Patriotism has served, at different times, as widely different ends as a razor, which ought to be used in keeping your face clean and yet may be used to cut your own throat or that of an innocent person. Charles Edward Montague
This afternoon held that special quality of mournful emptiness I've connected with late Sunday afternoons ever since childhood: the feeling of having nothing to do. Margaret Atwood
Mark Ruffalo quote: "The problem to me is violence. It's not cool to kill somebody..."
The problem to me is violence. It's not cool to kill somebody or hurt people. Mark Ruffalo
Relatives share a substantial proportion of their genes. Each selfish gene therefore has its loyalties divided between different bodies. Richard Dawkins
No sight so sad as that of a naughty child," he began, "especially a naughty little girl. Do you know where the wicked go after death?"They go to hell," was my ready and orthodox answer."And what is hell? Can you tell me that?"A pit full of fire."And should you like to fall into that pit, and to be burning there for ever?"No, sir."What must you do to avoid it?"I deliberated a moment: my answer, when it did come was objectionable: "I must keep in good health and not die. Charlotte Bronte
Bill Gates quote: "Life is not fair get used to used to it"
Life is not fair get used to used to it Bill Gates
Welcome, thou kind deceiver! Thou best of thieves; who, with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal us from ourselves. John Dryden
Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts. William Gibson
John C. Ransom quote: "And how can poetry stand up against its new conditions? Its..."
And how can poetry stand up against its new conditions? Its position is perfectly precarious. John C. Ransom
J. R. R. Tolkien quote: "It is plain that we were meant to go together."
It is plain that we were meant to go together. J. R. R. Tolkien
I had 13 weeks off and I would pack up the family and drive to some mountain retreat where we could be together and fish all day. I loved it. I needed it. Perry Como
Beauty is not only a terrible thing, it is also a mysterious thing. There God and the Devil strive for mastery, and the battleground is the heart of men. Fyodor Dostoevsky
I think now that I'm in the autumn of my life, and I'm getting a chance of having an overview and looking at the shape of how things happen, when things happen, why things happen, I think it was fitting that I spent most of my early career doing mask work, because I just don't think I was that comfortable in my own skin. Ron Perlman