Today Quotes
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If slaughterhouses had glass walls everyone would be a vegetarian.Paul McCartney
It will be hard to discover a better [method of education] than that which the experience of so many ages has already discovered, and this may be summed up as consisting in gymnastics for the body, and _music_ for the soul... For this reason is a musical education so essential; since it causes Rhythm and Harmony to penetrate most intimately into the soul, taking the strongest hold upon it, filling it with _beauty_ and making the man _beautiful-minded_.Plato, from a footnote in The Colloquy of Monos and Una, Edgar Allen Poe
How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks.Dorothy Sayers, Gaudy Night
To be possessed is an admirable reason for possessing.Dorothy Sayers, Gaudy Night
Only the insane is absolutely certain.Robert Anton Wilson, The Illuminatus Trilogy
My mother said to me, if you go into the military, you will become a general. If you go into the clergy, you will become Pope. Instead, I became an artist, and I am Piccaso.Pablo Piccaso
A single fact can spoil a good argument.Anonymous
It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.Ansel Adams
It is the duty of every patriot to protect his country from its government.Thomas Paine
They wanted facts. Facts! They demanded facts from him, as if facts could explain anything.Joseph Conrad