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“How do the angels get to sleep / When the Devil leaves his porch light on?”

“I don't have a drinking problem ‘cept when I can't get a drink.”

“If I exorcise my devils, well, my angels may leave too.”

“What's he building in there? We have a right to know.”

“I collaborate with my wife on the songs, and every aspect of it, really— composing, and arranging, and recording, all that business. We have a rhythm and a way of working it. It's kind of like borrowing the same ten bucks from somebody over and over again. But when you live together, it makes it a lot easier, the pay back.”

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"In studies, whatsoever a man commandeth upon himself, let him set hours for it; but whatsoever is agreeable to his nature, let him take no care for any set times; for his thoughts will fly to it, of t…"

— Francis Bacon

Literature1909–1992

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"Out of the years of the past comes a message from one who towered among us a generation ago—a message voicing in all its fervency the prayer and hope of Humanity: "Young man, young woman, join yoursel…"

— J. Howard Moore

Philosophy1862–1916

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"On the most usual assumption, the universe is homogeneous on the large scale, i. e. down to regions containing each an appreciable number of nebulae. The homogeneity assumption may then be put in the …"

— Hermann Bondi

Science1919–2005

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"They look at me, and you can see they're looking at a ghost. … Dave said, "She is so much like Kurt." They were all talking amongst themselves, rehashing old stories I'd heard a million times. I w…"

— Frances Bean Cobain

Art1992

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