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"They were obviously headstones of graves, though the graves themselves no longer existed as either mounds or depressions; the years had leveled all. Scattered here and there, more massive blocks showed where some pompous or ambitious monument had once flung its feeble defiance at oblivion."

"There was something melancholic about that symbol of their nation's promise of freedom, a bell with a chipped mouth and cleft body."

"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history."

"Those who stand for different causes during different generations often experience the same oppositions and the same difficulties as those of the previous and the next generations. That is the basis of history repeating itself."

"The Labour Party's election manifesto is the longest suicide note in history."
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"What I'm dealing with is so vast and great that it can't be called the truth. It's above the truth."


"Bach and Beethoven, all of them, they had to write something to please the upper structure, those with money and power."


"But recently I began to feel that maybe I wouldn't be able to do what I want to do and need to do with American musicians, who are imprisoned behind these bars; music's got these bars and measures you know."


"The world is in such a bad condition that if they don't find what you call a redeemer, every man, woman and child on this planet will be eliminated."


"All these other nations seem to appreciate what I'm doing and they want me to play the furthest out things."


"And then when I went to Chicago, that's when I had these outer space experiences and went to the other planets."
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