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“Once again decent citizens will be able to enter this house of worship, kneel down in front of a nearly-naked man hanging from a wooden apparatus by a series of gruesome body piercings, and engage in their bizarre practices of ritualized blood-drinking and cannibalism without being assaulted by graphic images of attractive young women with bare breasts.”
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“The best introductory guide to forestry practices and the issues surrounding the preservation of American forests.”
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“You should not be carried away by the dictation of the mind, but the mind should be carried by your dictation.”
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“If a man will comprehend the richness and variety of the universe, and inspire his mind with a due measure of wonder and awe, he must contemplate the human intellect not only on its heights of genius but in its abysses of ineptitude...”
Source : Marcus Manilius, A. E. Housman (2011). “Astronomicon”, p.19, Cambridge University Press
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“You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind ON, but what you can't keep your mind OFF.”
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“Some temptations cannot be fought. One must close one's mind and fly from them”
Source : A.J Cronin (1942). “the Keys of the Kingdom”
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“The inspired moment may sometimes be described as a kind of hallucinatory state of mind: one half of the personality emotes and dictates while the other half listens and notates. The half that listens has better look the other way, had better simulate a half attention only, for the half that dictates is easily disgruntled and avenges itself for too close inspection by fading entirely away.”
Source : Aaron Copland (1980). “Music and Imagination”, p.43, Harvard University Press
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“I cannot bear not to know the end of a tale. I will read the most trivial things – once commenced – only out of a feverish greed to be able to swallow the ending – sweet or sour – and to be done with what I need never have embarked on. Are you in my case? Or are you a more discriminating reader? Do you lay aside the unprofitable?”
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“Birth is a shadow. Courage, self-sustained, outlords succession's phlegm, and needs no ancestors.”
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“I need to listen to chill music when I'm driving. It prevents road rage.”
Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com. 
