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Genius is the fire that lights itself. -Commenting on Buddy Rich.

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The secret to life is, you get up in the morning, and you go to work - from the book Travelling Music

Life is like an aimless river
The time is now again
-- Ceiling Unlimited (2002)

Adventures suck when you're having them.
-- Roadshow (2006)

How can anybody be enlightened?
Truth is after all so poorly lit
-- Turn The Page (1987)

I'm not looking back, but I want to look around me now.
-- Time Stand Still (1987)

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Each of these private teachers who work for pay ... inculcates nothing else than these opinions of the multitude which they opine when they are assembled and calls this knowledge wisdom.

Socrates

Most intellectual people do not believe in God, but they fear him just the same.

Wilhelm Reich Philosophy : An Introduction to the Art of Wondering (2005)

Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.

Anne Louise Germaine de Staël De l’Allemagne [Germany (1813)

Like every 'intellectual', a philosophy teacher is a petty bourgeois. When he opens his mouth, it is petty-bourgeois ideology that speaks: its resources and ruses are infinite.

Louis Althusser Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays (1968)

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