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"It is easy to destroy a book, but an idea once implanted has roots no man can utterly destroy."

"I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long-established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right."

"If Pakistan has any ideas of annexing any part of our territories by force, she should think afresh. I want to state categorically that force will be met with force and aggression against us will never be allowed to succeed."

"Ideas that don't even exist have the power to destroy the world."

"Ray is very secretive about his ideas - why not, the times that the Kinks have been ripped off, especially in the early years, it makes you a little bit cautious about telling anybody what you're doing. And that's understandable."
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"The Beatles were something everyone had in common; this was thirty years ago, there was Dr. Who and everybody knew who the Daleks were and there was The Beatles and everybody knew who George Harrison was."


"I've been able to make a good living as a musician, but now it's time to do all the other stuff."


"People's intelligence tends to be in inverse proportion to their number. People don't tend to get smarter as they get into bigger groups."


"After Nashville sushi and a long debate on Bob Dylan, we went into Woodland Studios at 10 pm that night for a look around, and jammed for 5 hours solid."


"You realize that the first Bryan Ferry album was pretty good although at the time it seemed a bit cheesy."
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