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“Like all mad men, I thought everyone was mad except myself.”

Book:A Confession and Other Religious Writings

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A Confession and Other Religious Writings

This book compiles a selection of religious-themed essays and confessional pieces, exploring various spiritual and religious themes. more

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Leo Tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy was a Russian writer and thinker, a prominent representative of 19th-century Russian literature. His works deeply revealed social contradictions and human nature, and had a profound impact on the world. more

“In times of totalitarian or autocratic rule, music (indeed culture in general) is often the only avenue of independent thought. It is the only way people can meet as equals, and exchange ideas. Culture then becomes primarily the voice of the oppressed and it takes over from politics as a driving force for change.”

People Way Ideas Culture Force Voice Independent Driving Oppressed Avenues Driving Force Independent Thought

Author:Daniel Barenboim

“Torture is how you create enemies, not how you defeat them... Torture is how you get bad information, not good intelligence. Torture is how you set back America's standing in the world, not how you strengthen it.”

World America Enemy Information Standing Defeat Torture

Author:Barack Obama

“The French Revolution gave us three... powerful ideas, or concepts - liberty, equality and fraternity. But these ideas... are not only right in themselves, but they are so because they come in the proper order. You cannot have equality without liberty, and you certainly cannot have fraternity without equality. The importance of this I learnt from music, because music evolves in time, and therefore the order inevitably determines the content.”

Ideas Order Three Powerful Liberty Revolution Music Is Concepts Importance Determine Evolve Fraternity French Revolution

Author:Daniel Barenboim

“I was stuck on the side of a mountain in Scotland. I was looking down on emptiness. I lay on my back and looked around in panic. I prayed to God and relaxed. I realised if I turned carefully on my front I could see bits of grass to hold on to.”

Ifs Bits Sides Fronts Mountain Lays Stuck Grass Emptiness Panic Scotland Relaxed Realised Looking Down

Author:Ivor Cutler

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