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Sun Ra

"I'm playing dark history. It's beyond black. I'm dealing with the dark things of the cosmos."

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"I'm playing dark history. It's beyond black. I'm dealing with the dark things of the cosmos."

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Amber Hurdle

"The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever."

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"The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion."

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Amber Hurdle

"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."

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Amber Hurdle

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

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Amber Hurdle

"The United States was born in the country and moved to the city in the nineteenth century."

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Amber Hurdle

"The past is not a package one can lay away."

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"The double-crossed, might-have-been history of my country is not the study of what actually took place here: it's the study of historians' studies. . . .Memories are their own descendants masquerading as the ancestors of the present."

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Amber Hurdle

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

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"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."

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"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."
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"I use music as a medium to talk to people."
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"A world is in danger, this planet is in great danger!"
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"Bach and Beethoven, all of them, they had to write something to please the upper structure, those with money and power."
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"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."
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"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."
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"All these other nations seem to appreciate what I'm doing and they want me to play the furthest out things."
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"Music is a language, you see, a universal language."
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"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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"People have set that up as a standard, not to recognize a prophet in his own country."
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