"Music is everything. God himself is nothing more than an acoustic hallucination."

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“Fortunate those who, born before science, were privileged to die of their first disease!”

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“The more one is obsessed with God, the less one is innocent. Nobody bothered about him in paradise. The fall brought about this divine torture. It's not possible to be conscious of divinity without guilt. Thus God is rarely to be found in an innocent soul.”

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— Jack Sargeant (writer)

Education1968

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"The spark within is akin to the Divine Ground. By identifying ourselves with the first we can come to unitive knowledge of the second. These empirical facts of the spiritual life have been variously r…"

— Aldous Huxley

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"I know very few who are willing to die for their convictions. I wouldn't be hit on the head with a billy club or have mace squirted in my face. When I was younger and a radical at American University …"

— Cass Elliot

Music1941–1974

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"Now, when we came together, we knew restoring that bargain — that deal, that compact — was not going to be easy. We knew it would take more than one year or one term or maybe even one President, becau…"

— Barack Obama

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