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- It just seem like musicians want to sell a few records and put out a perfume line, and I think it's so sad that there are so many musicians who don't want to change the world... Music has been so much more.
- Moby, quoted on CNN.com, March 2005
- The church was not merely a thermometer that recorded the ideas and principles of popular opinion; it was a thermostat that transformed the mores of society.
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968), Letter from Birmingham Jail, April 1963
- Everything comes to him who waits but a loaned book.
- Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930)
- I knew a man who gave up smoking, drinking, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself.
- Johnny Carson (1925 - 2005), people magazine special issue
- You have to forget about what other people say; when you're supposed to die, when you're supposed to be lovin'. You have to forget about all these things. You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.
- Jimi Hendrix (1942 - 1970)
- Maybe you have to know darkness before you can appreciate the light.
- Madeleine L'engle (1918 - ), her novel-- "A Ring of Endless Light"
- Bishops move diagonally. That's why they often turn up where the kings don't expect them to be.
- Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
- Great use they have, when in the hands
Of one like me, who understands, Who understands the time and place, The person, manner, and the grace, Which fools neglect; so that we find, If all the requisites are join'd, From whence a perfect joke must spring, A joke's a very serious thing. - Charles Churchill, "The Ghost", 1762, Book IV, lines 1379-1387
- To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
- [Humanity] has unquestionably one really effective weapon—laughter. Power, money, persuasion, supplication, persecution—these can lift at a colossal humbug—push it a little—weaken it a little, century by century; but only laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), The Mysterious Stranger, chapter 10 (1916)
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