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“Agressive music can only shock you once. Afterwards its impact declines. It's inevitable.”

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Brian Eno is a British musician, composer, and music producer, born on May 15, 1948. Known for his innovative musical style and experimental spirit, he has had a profound impact on modern music. more

“The House is composed of very good men, not shining, but honest and reasonably well-informed, and in time will be found to improve, and not much inferior in eloquence, science, and dignity, to the British Commons. They are patriotic enough, and I believe there are more stupid (as well as more shining) people in the latter, in proportion.”

Source: Works of Fisher Ames: With a Selection from His Speeches and Correspondence

“The main objects of all science, the freedom and happiness of man. . . . [are] the sole objects of all legitimate government. A plaque with this quotation, with the first phrase omitted, is in the stairwell of the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty.”

Men Firsts Government Liberty Objects Phrases Sole Quotations Statues Pedestal Statue Of Liberty Freedom And Happiness Legitimate Government

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“The nicest constitutions of government are often like the finest pieces of clock-work, which, depending on so many motions, are therefore more subject to be out of order.”

Government Order Pieces Subjects Constitution Clock Finest

Book:The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq., in Verse and Prose: With a Selection of Explanatory Notes

Source: The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq., in Verse and Prose: With a Selection of Explanatory Notes

“There is no doubt that many expensive national projects may add to our prestige or serve science. But none of them must take precedence over human needs. As long as Congress does not revise its priorities, our crisis is not just material, it is a crisis of the spirit.”

“WEATHER, n. The climate of an hour. A permanent topic of conversation among persons whom it does not interest, but who have inherited the tendency to chatter about it from naked arboreal ancestors whom it keenly concerned. The setting up of official weather bureaus and their maintenance in mendacity prove that even governments are accessible to suasion by the rude forefathers of the jungle.”

Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

“An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens . . . There has never been a moment of my life in which I should have relinquished for it the enjoyments of my family, my farm, my friends and books.”

Men Feels Should Book Moments Government Pleasure Honest Citizens Exercise My Friends My Family Should Have Fellows Enjoyment Farms Honest Man

Book:Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson

Source: Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson

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