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That's the best way to feed the human mind. That's how Bob Marley did it. He never put it in your face. After you got the groove, you were just singing the hooks, because you thought it was cool.


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JEAN GENET Other exercises develop single powers and muscles, but dancing embellishes, exercises, and equalizes...
JEAN PAUL No heroine can create a hero through love of one, but she can give birth to one.
JEAN PAUL The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tribut...
JEAN GENET To hate fatigues.
JEAN ROSTAND There is an invisible garment woven around us from our earliest years; it is made of the way we eat,...
JEAN GIRAUDOUX Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness.
JEAN ROSTAND We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds.
JEAN ROSTAND My only hope lies in my despair.
JEAN RACINE Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent.
JEAN KERR Without money honor is merely a disease.
JEAN RACINE It's no longer a warmth hidden in my veins: it's Venus entire and whole fastening on her prey.
JEAN RACINE Without God there is for mankind no purpose, no goal, no hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dr...
JEAN PAUL The fear of being wrong is the prime inhibitor of the creative process.
JEAN BRYANT Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other han...
JEAN COCTEAU There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.
JEAN ROSTAND The child is not to be educated for the present, but for the remote future, and often is opposition ...
JEAN PAUL When the judge calls the criminal's name out he stands up, and they are immediately linked by a stra...
JEAN GENET To say of men that they are bad is to say they are worse than we think we are, or worse than the ide...
JEAN ROSTAND Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.
JEAN PAUL