I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.
-Mark Twain
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If one should desire to know whether a kingdom is well governed, if its morals are good or bad, the quality of its music will furnish the answer.
-Confucius
Without faith there is no knowledge, without knowledge there is no virtuous conduct, without virtues there is no deliverance, and without deliverance there is no perfection.
-Scriptures
God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.
-C. S. Lewis
Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.
-Marcel Marceau
When the creative impulse sweeps over you, grab it! You grab it and honour it and use it, because momentum is a rare gift.
-Justina Headley
Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that, unsuspected, ripens with the flower of the pleasure that concealed it.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.
-Michel Foucault
