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Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language. ↗

— Walt Disney

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Never complain and never explain. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

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To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

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Music was your real passion, this thing you held dear even above family. It was this relationship that never betrayed you. Once it became your job - this thing that was highly visible, this thing that became about commerce - that's when you were holding onto music like it was a palm tree in a hurricane. ↗

— Eddie Vedder

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What interests me is what you might call vernacular writing, writing that connects you to a place. ↗

— Calvin Trillin

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The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments' plans. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

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Playing music for as long as I had been playing music and then getting a shot at making a record and at having an audience and stuff, it's just like an untamed force... a different kind of energy. ↗

— Eddie Vedder

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Well, you need the villain. If you don't have a villain, the good guy can stay home. ↗

— Christoph Waltz

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Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

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Hominid and human evolution took place over millions and not billions of years, but with the emergence of language there was a further acceleration of time and the rate of change. ↗

— William Irwin Thompson

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