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"All songwriters are links in a chain."

"I have always considered myself to possess a sixth sense, and my mother always told me to tap into my gut, my intuition"

"Muhammad ibn Tughlaq “led forth his army to ravage Hindostan. He laid the country waste from Kanauj to Dalmau , and every person that fell into his hands he slew. Many of the inhabitants fled and took…"

"In Cambellpur lawlessness was of an especially serious nature. In the village of Dheri, on March 8, the attack was made by a large mob which advanced with drums beating. A very large number of Sikhs, …"

"Biographical profile at CharlesThomson.com"

"I am not sure it can ever be used... I don't think we ought to use this thing unless we absolutely have to. It is a terrible thing to order the use of something that is so terribly destructive, destru…"

"To be perfectly honest, it has had its handicaps. The thing is that people judge you by your parents' and people expect me to be just like daddy and mother. Therefore, I can't run across the street or…"

"My husband is a good father, concerned about his children. His parents were divorced when he was young, so family life has a special meaning for him. On basics, on principles, we are very much agreed.…"

"images of children should only be considered pornographic if it could be proven the subject suffered"

"Regardless of whom you pray to, during war our experiences as a community and as mothers are the same."

"To me, camp is two older queens talking about Rita Hayworth under a Tiffany's lampshade."

"My lord, I have heard that your father was a military man. Was that the case?"

"The recognition, the diagnosis, and the preservation of psychopathic individuals account for the apparent increase of neurotics in civilized communities."

"Of all the founders of great religions, Jesus alone proclaimed one God, immanent and powerful, holy and righteous, a loving and seeking Father, concerned about the welfare of each of his children."

"You can't bomb for a humane reason. What we should do is just Mother Teresa them to death with love. It's that old hippie nonsense but it's still the best stuff there is."

"Minnesota Zen Master" — a profile of Garrison Keillor, published in The Guardian"

"'There is a season for everything, patience will reward you and reveal all answers to your questions.'"

"They’re your children. The more you try to force them to be like you, the more they’re going to flare off in different directions like wild fireworks, the more they’re going to surprise and disappoint…"

"When I was a boy and refused to speak Spanish , then could not speak Spanish from awkwardness, then guilt, Mexican relatives criticized my parents for letting me “lose it”—my culture, they said."

"Whether or not Big Brother is watching us, we certainly have to watch him, which may be even worse."