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[Allegro]

… the poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things. [Refer Google Books.]

[Allegro]

spoken by Lorenzo in The Merchant of Venice

• The man that hath no music in himself,
  Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds,
  Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils.
  The motions of his spirit are dull as night,
  And his affections dark as Erebus.
  Let no such man be trusted…

• Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

• • Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.

• • • My music is best understood by children and animals.

[barracuda]

"All women are lesbians, except those that don’t know it, naturally. They are, but don't know it yet...

Until all women are lesbians there will be no true political revolution."

-Jill Johnston

[Alaya]

Consul:

Well....you know...they admit that on 911 they were running a joint task force training excercise. How deep the training went. Feynman said that the most dangerous thing of our time was the rising likelihood of global mind control. Training excercise. Sit. Stand. Flinch. Osama. Fire. Explosion. Crying widows. Sadam. Heroic fireman with useless radio. Flapping flag. Evil Ahmadinejad. Evil. They showed over and over again the axel of evil then proclaimed the axis of evil. Sit. Watch. Obey. The training never ends. Flag. Ask no questions. Cowards. Undermine our troops. Come together. Wave that flag. We don't count the dead. They don't value life like we do. Holocaust/911 denier. Psychotic madman. Translation management. They can't have bomb, Israel has hunreds of them and it is never even discussed by any government official. Undying ally. Evil enemy. Oil. God. Oil. God. Freedom. Sit. Buy. Buy more. Stand. Sit. Oil. God. War. Good boy. Sit. Die.

[Allegro]

LaGuardia represented a dangerous style of personal rule hitched to a transcendent purpose. People would be afraid of allowing anybody to take that kind of power today. [Refer.]

[Allegro]

Only a mediocre person is always at his best. [Refer.]

[justdrew]

Mao Tse Tung Did Not Have To Deal With People Who Were Watching 7 Hours Of Television Every Day

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue

Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all

[Allegro]

Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to its vomit. [Refer.]

[Laodicean]

...there are nights here with the moonlight, cold & ghastly & the whippoorwills, & the screech owls alone disturbing the silence when I could tear my hair & cry aloud for all that is past & gone.

- Mary Chesnut

[The Consul]

"Shitting and believing are two very different things."

-Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

[Jeff]

A very strange thing happened at the turn of the century; without noticing it, we lost science, or at least the thing that had been called by that name for the last four centuries. What we now have in place of it is something different, radically different, and we don't know what it is. Nobody knows what it is.

[The Consul]

“…the proponents of one answer have looked with horror at the actions of the believers in another. Horror, because from a disagreeing point of view all the great potentialities of the race were being channeled into a false and confining blind alley. In fact, it is from the history of the enormous monstrosities created by false belief that philosophers have realized the apparently infinite and wondrous capacities of human beings. The dream is to find the open channel.”

-Richard Feynman, "The Value of Science"

[Gouda]

"It is like we are on another planet."

~ Olivier Lejour, Canadian traveler waiting to take off from Charles de Gaulle.

While he said it was "fun" to watch, he said the protests disrupted his efforts to work in Paris. (AP)

[Allegro]

Refer.

[jingofever]

"The United States lost six million jobs, indebted itself to China by $1.4 trillion, and received in return a host of consumer goods, many of which now reside in landfills across the country."
--Paul Tudor Jones