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Ray Manzarek

"Through all of history mankind has ingested psychedelic substances. Those substances exist to put you in touch with spirits beyond yourself, with the creator, with the creative impulse of the planet."

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"Through all of history mankind has ingested psychedelic substances. Those substances exist to put you in touch with spirits beyond yourself, with the creator, with the creative impulse of the planet."

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Amber Hurdle

"If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility."

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"In the legal respect, after the execution of the supposed incendiaries, the other half of Moscow burned down."

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"Up to 90% of all inventions of the world comes from the Protestant world."

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"And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history-money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery-the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy."

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Amber Hurdle

"Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point."

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"If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music and of aviation."

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"In the parlor was a huge camera on wheels like the ones used in public parks, and the backdrop of a marine twilight, painted with homemade paints, and the walls papered with pictures of children at memorable moments: the first Communion, the bunny costume, the happy birthday. Year after year, during contemplative pauses on afternoons of chess, Dr. Urbino had seen the gradual covering over of the walls, and he had often thought with a shudder of sorrow that in the gallery of casual portraits lay the germ of the future of the city, governed and corrupted by those unknown children, where note even the ashes of his glory would remain."

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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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Amber Hurdle

"Our aadivasi sisters and brothers have played a paramount role in the freedom struggle. For hundreds of years, people across villages of the country kept alive the flame of sacrifices for attaining independence. They left no stone unturned in helping India attain freedom."

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Amber Hurdle

"All that we call human history--money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery--[is] the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy."

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"Rock 'n' roll is like a circus today."
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"The Doors were never that good as musicians."
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"The only thing that ultimately matters is to eat an ice-cream cone, play a slide trombone, plant a small tree, good God, now you're free."
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"I'm basically a cocktail jazz kind of pianist. I'll be the first to admit that I'm not a very good keyboard player. People think I think I'm good. I think I'm a very poor piano player."
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"The Doors were successful. It was Jim Morrison as the centre and the figure and the spokesman, the figurehead, but we were all into the same thing. That's why we were a band."
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"I thought we were gonna open up the world of poetry and music to all kinds of things, and yet, I can't really think of anyone who's done anything like it since."
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"The Doors movie is a pack of lies. It did not make money. You want to make money in America? Tell the truth."
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"If there was no black man there would be no Rock'n'Roll. The beat, the rhythms of Africa are what created Rock'n'Roll and Jazz."
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"Jim wanted to be known as a poet, first and foremost."
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