Poetry is devil's wine. - Saint Augustine

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Today's folk song is rock and roll. Although it happened to emanate from America, that's not really important in the end because we wrote our own music and that changed everything.

Saint Augustine

Poetry is devil's wine.

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It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.

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I once laboured hard for the free will of man, until the grace of God at length overcame me.

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Trust the past to the mercy of God, the present to His love, and the future to His providence.

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He who denies the existence of God, has some reason for wishing that God did not exist.

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God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them.

Always Trying, Full, Giving, Good, Hands

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Terence McKenna

And so, these are the things, the exploration of which, the singing about of which, makes us human beings. The exploration of the universe of the unseen is the business of human beings.

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Leo Ornstein

Because essentially Schoenberg was an extremely gifted man. And in spite of many of his theories and so on, when he really began to write music, he still was guided very much by his internal hearing, by what we call your internal ear.

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Margaret Bourke-White

The very secret of life for mewas to maintain in the midst of rushing events an inner tranquility. I had picked a life that dealt with excitement, tragedy, mass calamities, human triumphs and suffering. To throw my whole self into recording and attempting to understand these things, I needed an inner serenity as a kind of balance.

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John Lennon

Today's folk song is rock and roll. Although it happened to emanate from America, that's not really important in the end because we wrote our own music and that changed everything.

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Bob Sanders

If you hit somebody hard enough, they will give up. You can feel their body go limp and they'll just surrender. So every time I hit somebody, the goal is to knock myself out. I know that if I hit somebody hard enough that I can feel it, it's hurting them 10 times worse.

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