The exact objectives of Islam Inc. are obscure. Needless to say everyone involved has a different angle, and … - William S. Burroughs

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Getting the degree meant more to me than an NCAA title, being named All-American or winning an Olympic gold medal.

William S. Burroughs

The exact objectives of Islam Inc. are obscure. Needless to say everyone involved has a different angle, and they all intend to cross each other up somewhere along the line.

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I miss you so much your absence causes me, at times, accute pain. I don't mean sexually. I mean in connection with my writing.

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The best way to keep something bad from happening is to see it ahead of time. . . and you can't see it if you refuse to face the possibility.

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It is to be remembered that all art is magical in origin - music, sculpture, writing, painting - and by magical I mean intended to produce very definite results. Paintings were originally formulae to make what is painted happen. Art is not an end in itself, any more than Einstein's matter-into-energy formulae is an end in itself. Like all formulae, art was originally FUNCTIONAL, intended to make things happen, the way an atom bomb happens from Einstein's formulae.

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There are no innocent bystanders.

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Now Christianity sounded good at first to the naive convert. Love, peace and charity - what's wrong with that? I'll tell you what's wrong - a series of unprecedented horrors perpetrated by so-called Christians: The Inquisition, the Conquistadores, the American Indian wars, slavery, Hiroshima and the present-day Bible Belt.

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I was teaching in one of the universities while the country was suffering from a severe famine. People were dying of hunger, and I felt very helpless. As an economist, I had no tool in my tool box to fix that kind of situation.

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Patrick Ewing

Getting the degree meant more to me than an NCAA title, being named All-American or winning an Olympic gold medal.

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Louis D. Brandeis

The tax-exempt privilege is a feature always reflected in the market price of [municipal] bonds. The investor pays for it.

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Lucy Maud Montgomery

I read somewhere once that souls were like flowers,' said Priscilla. 'Then your soul is a golden narcissus,' said Anne, 'and Diana's is like a red, red rose. Jane's is an apple blossom, pink and wholesome and sweet. ' 'And our own is a white violet, with purple streaks in its heart,' finished Priscilla.

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Frantz Fanon

For the beloved should not allow me to turn my infantile fantasies into reality: On the contrary, he should help me to go beyond them.

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