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The freedom to express yourself without fear - that perhaps is something we in the U.S. take for granted. It's almost inconceivable to think we would be afraid to express our opinions or thoughts, but that's not true for all parts of the world now, and certainly not before World War II.


Friedrich St. Florian

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ST. VINCENT Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!
ST. JEROME It is not enough for us to restrain from doing evil, unless we shall also do good.
ST. JEROME It's easy when you're working together to let work things overtake your life, when all you&#...
ST. LUCIA I was really into Radiohead and Live.
ST. LUCIA I was always into things like Boyz II Men and boy bands, and then I got into Radiohead and alt-rock.
ST. LUCIA The reason I decided to become a solo artist in the first place was because I always felt that the r...
ST. LUCIA I went through all these different phases. But it always felt like I was impersonating something, so...
ST. LUCIA I try to not be self-conscious in my writing process. I think it's important to just be in your ...
ST. LUCIA I think a lot of people who want to be musicians terrify their parents because they don't have a...
ST. VINCENT We've always enjoyed touring, which is fortunate because we're always on the road. The most ...
ST. LUCIA Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive...
ST. BASIL Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime. •Jean Pierre Claris De Floria...
JEAN PIERRE CLARIS DE FLORIAN Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
JEAN PIERRE CLARIS DE FLORIAN The only remedy against hunger is reasonable birth control.
FRIEDRICH DURRENMATT The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another - no less so in a democr...
FRIEDRICH ENGELS Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Fear is the mother of morality.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The worst possible turn can not be programmed. It is caused by coincidence.
FRIEDRICH DURRENMATT In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil consc...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE