"Man's ego's inflated, his laws are outdated. They don't apply no more. You can't rely no more to be standing around waiting."

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“I am a writer an a singer of the words I write I am no speaker nor any politician an my songs speak for me because I write them in the confinement of my own mind an have t cope with no one except my own self.”

“I ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more.”

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"Today we play guitar. We shall not speak or write. We just play and maybe drink some blood of virgins."

— Jaani Peuhu

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— Stephen Hawking

Science1942–2018

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"There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked."

— Montesquieu

Philosophy1689–1755

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"In all of history, we have found just one cure for error—a partial antidote against making and repeating grand, foolish mistakes, a remedy against self-deception. That antidote is criticism."

— David Brin

Literature1950

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