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"Truth is the light So you never give up the fight."

"If you get down and you quarrel everyday You're saying prayers to the devils, I say."

"Never make a politician grant you a favour They will always want to control you forever."

"A hungry mob is an angry mob."

"If you are the big tree We are the small axe Sharpened to cut you down Ready to cut you down"

"Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights! Get up, stand up: don't give up the fight!"

"One good thing about music, when it hits you feel no pain."

"Wit's an unruly engine, wildly strikingSometimes a friend, sometimes the engineer."

"A verse may finde him,who a sermon fliesAnd turns delight into a sacrifice."

"It (my book) is a picture of the many spiritual conflicts that have passed between God and my soul, before I could subject mine to the will of Jesus, my Master, in whose service I have now found perfe…"

"Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and …"

"Christians should never fail to sense the operation of an angelic glory. It forever eclipses the world of demonic powers, as the sun does a candle's light."

"You don't always get what you ask for, but you never get what you don't ask for... unless it's contagious!"

"In youth, we run into difficulties. In old age, difficulties run into us."

"I needed to sing — desperately. My voice poured out more easily because I was no longer singing for anyone's approval; I was beyond caring about the public's reaction, I just wanted to enjoy myself. ……"

"By no means run in debt: take thine own measure.Who cannot live on twenty pound a year,Cannot on forty."

"Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie:A fault, which needs it most, grows two thereby."

"Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame,When once it is within thee."

"A verse may finde him,who a sermon fliesAnd turns delight into a sacrifice"

"It (my book) is a picture of the many spiritual conflicts that have passed between God and my soul, before I could subject mine to the will of Jesus, my Master, in whose service I have now found perfe…"

"My meaning (dear Mother) is in these sonnets, to declare my resolution to be, that my poor abilities in poetry, shall be all and ever consecrated to God's glory."

"Man is one world, and hathAnother to attend him."

"Bibles laid open, millions of surprises."

"Like summer friends,Flies of estate and sunneshine."

"Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses,A box where sweets compacted lie."

"To write a verse or two is all the praiseThat I can raise."

"He is no fool who parts with that which he cannot keep, when he is sure to be recompensed with that which he cannot lose."

"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose."

"I feel like this is the beginning,Though I've loved you for a million years,And if I thought our love was ending,I'd find myself drowning in my own tears."

"You are the sunshine of my life,That's why I'll always be around,You are the apple of my eye,Forever you'll stay in my heart."

"I'm happier than the morning sun,And that's the way you said that it would be,If I should ever bring you inside my life."

"When the summer came you were not around,Now the summer's gone and love cannot be found,Where were you when I needed you last winter, my love?"

"But, very well, I believe I know you very well,Wish that you knew me too, very well,And I think I can deal with everything going through your head."

"Like a fool I went and stayed too long,Now I'm wondering if your love's still strong,Ooh, baby, here I am,Signed, sealed, delivered, I'm yours!"

"For once in my life I won’t let sorrow hurt me, Not like it’s hurt me before, oh For once I have something I know won't desert me ‘Cause I’m not alone anymore."

"For once in my life I have someone who needs me, Someone I needed so long."

"My Cherie Amour, pretty little one that I adore You're the only girl my heart beats for How I wish that you were mine."

"Baby, everything is alright,Uptight, outta sight!"

"What I’ve not heard is a unanimous commitment to atone for the sins of this country... I know that dance. I've heard those songs. It was an 18-year fight to (make) Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthda…"

"Most cassettes are afraid of me."

"Sometimes I think I would love to see … just to see the beauty of flowers and trees and birds and the earth and grass. … Being as I've never seen, I don't know what it's like to see. So in a sense I'm…"

"What y'all thought y'all wasn't gon' see me? I'm the Osiris of this shit!"

"How many retards'll listen to me and run up in the school shootin' when they're pissed at the teacher? "Her? Him? Is it you? Is it them?" "Wasn't me, Slim Shady said to do it again!"

"Roy Kerwood's Montreal Bed In Site May 1969"

"BBC News Music Piracy"

"All you can write is what you see."

"morrisseymusic.com – website run by Sanctuary Records"

"You have to be let alone to really accomplish anything."

"“I was always bothered when people say, ‘I cry to your music, it sounds like a diary, it sounds so personal,’…Yes, it is personal. But that’s so gendered. There’s no feeling of, ‘Oh, maybe she’s a son…"

"When I was growing up there were few Asians on TV and now I'm one of many and that makes me happy. I see how far we've come, which is amazing. But diversity is still an issue and we have to continue t…"

"It's just rock and roll. A lot of times we get criticized for it. A lot of music papers come out with: 'When are they going to stop playing these three chords?' If you believe you shouldn't play just …"

"Could he use the same excuse as the Confed—the end justified the means? Sometimes it did, of course, but could one ethically justify using the same methods as a deplored enemy, in order to get it to s…"

"Theodore Dalrymple, City Journal, 2006"

"I'd gone to the Lamaze classes, and the second time I said, 'Breathe!' Sonia said, 'Shut up!' So I said, 'OK, I'll sit at this desk and find something to do."

"Never really cared what the fuck these niggas think"

"How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of feeling."

"The fact that certain composers have been able to create first-class music within the medium of film proves that film music can be as good as the composer is gifted."

"How Human beings are, that is how the society will be. So, creating human beings who are flexible and willing to look at everything rather than being stuck in their ideas and opinions definitely makes…"

"Yo, this one here, goes out to all my players out there man, you know."

"And rememba' something nigga' while you rave and rant, a roach can live for nine days without it's head but you can't"