Dr. Daniel und Bernadette Skubik | A driving drum rhythm in excess

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"A driving drum rhythm in excess of three to four beats per second will put the brain into a state of stress, regardless if the listener likes or dislikes the music. And when the brain is in this stressful state, it will release opioids—a group of natural hormones that function like morphine—to help return itself to normal equilibrium and sense of well-being. These natural opioids, if experienced often enough, can be addicting, creating in the listener the continual desire for that ‘high’ somewhat like the high runners experience." Dr. Daniel und Bernadette Skubik

Peter Schiff | the most incompetent economists

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"Soon investors will realize that the most incompetent economists in the world work for central banks. The second most incompetent economists work for government. The third most incompetent work for major universities and the forth most incompetent work for large investment banks." Peter Schiff

George Orwell | everything else is public relations

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"Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed; everything else is public relations." George Orwell

Benjamin Franklin | Whoever gives up freedom to gain security

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"Whoever gives up freedom to gain security will, in the end, lose both." Benjamin Franklin

Bertolt Brecht | And they were sawing off the branches

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"And they were sawing off the branches on which they were sitting. While shouting across their experiences to one another on how to saw more efficiently. And they went crashing down into the deep. And those who watched them shook their heads and continued sawing vigorously" Bertolt Brecht

Ursula von der Leyen | Thank you for your leadership

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"Thank you Melinda & Bill for your leadership and dedication!" Ursula von der Leyen

John Adams | Fear is the foundation of most governments

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"Fear is the foundation of most governments; but it is so sordid and brutal a passion, and renders men in whose breasts it predominates so stupid and miserable, that Americans will not be likely to approve of any political institution which is founded on it." John Adams

Hans-Hermann Hoppe | What is true, just, and beautiful

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"What is true, just, and beautiful is not determined by popular vote. The masses everywhere are ignorant, short-sighted, motivated by envy, and easy to fool. Democratic politicians must appeal to these masses in order to be elected. Whoever is the best demagogue will win. Almost by necessity, then, democracy will lead to the perversion of truth, justice and beauty." Hans-Hermann Hoppe

Steven Spielberg | Film is the most powerful weapon in the world

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"Film is the most powerful weapon in the world. Filmmakers have the responsibility not just to entertain, but to be responsible, to inform" Steven Spielberg

Prince | We’re all indentured servants

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"The other thing is the first line of the song says I was born on the same plantation in the United States of the red, white and blue, and we live in a place now that feels just about like a plantation. We're all indentured servants. When I found out there were eight presidents before George Washington, I wanted to smack somebody. I wanted to know why I was taught otherwise. Just tell me the whole story - I'll fill in the blanks. But don't tell me something that you think I'm supposed to know." Prince

Shu Ching | there is nothing better than music

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"For changing peoples' manners and altering their customs there is nothing better than music." Shu Ching

Aristotle | Music directly represents the passions of the soul

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"Music directly represents the passions of the soul. If one listens to the wrong kind of music, he will become the wrong kind of person." Aristotle

Albert Einstein | Education is what remains after

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"Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school." Albert Einstein

Plato | Strange times are these in which we live

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"Strange times are these in which we live when old and young are taught falsehoods in school. And the person that dares to tell the truth is called at once a lunatic and fool" Plato

Plato | Through foolishness they deceived themselves

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"Through foolishness they deceived themselves into thinking that there was no right or wrong way in music, that it was to be judged good or bad by the pleasure it gave. By their works and their theories they infected the masses with the presumption to think themselves adequate judges. So our theatres, once silent, grew vocal, and aristocracy of music gave way to a pernicious theatrocracy...the criterion was not music, but a reputation for promiscuous cleverness and a spirit of law-breaking." Plato

Neil Young | There’s more to the picture than meets the eye

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"Hey hey, Rock and roll can never die. There's more to the picture than meets the eye" Neil Young

Andrew Oldham | Rock music is sex

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"Rock music is sex and you have to hit them [teenagers] in the face with it" Andrew Oldham

Anton Szandor LaVey | Today’s Satanic bands

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„Today’s Satanic bands are the vehicle of choice for millions of young people. If they encourage a study of real Satanism, I’m all for them. Now, there are many influential groups who know Satanism and aren’t afraid to espouse it—bands like King Diamond, The Electric Hellfire Club, Acheron, Marilyn Manson, Nine Inch Nails—the list is long. I have no use for the bands who take the Devil’s name, but are too chickenshit to play the Devil’s game. They’re usually too stupid to present any argument concerning Satanism. Instead, when put to the question, they cop out by answering: “Yeah—I was into that shit but not now. Don’t ask me about it because there’s no point in talking about it.” There are Satanic bands and there are “Satanic” bands.“ Anton Szandor LaVey

Jefferson Starship | Our music is intended

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"Our music is intended to broaden the generation gap and alienate children from their parents" Jefferson Starship

Conway Twitty | we are contributing to the moral decline in America

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"As a country artist, I'm not proud of a lot of the things in my field. There is no doubt in my mind that we are contributing to the moral decline in America" Conway Twitty

Craig Chaquico | Rock concerts are the churches Of today

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"Rock concerts are the churches Of today.Music puts them on a spiritual plane. All music is God" Craig Chaquico

Marilyn Manson | we can give ’em our message

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"I don't know if anyone has really understood what we're trying to do . . . to lure people in. Once we've got 'em we can give 'em our message." Marilyn Manson

Billy Joel | subversive sexual revolution

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"It made people feel profane. All those things they were saying about rock and roll, it's going to subvert our youth, it's going to make them to want to have sex, it will make them crazy, they were right. Billy Joel

George Orwell | The further a society moves away from the truth

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"The further a society moves away from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it." George Orwell

Francis Bacon | Daughter of time

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"Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority." Francis Bacon

Napoleon Bonaparte | There is no more good-natured, but also no more gullible people

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"There is no more good-natured, but also no more gullible people than the Germans. No lie can be conceived treacherous enough, the Germans believe it. They follow a slogan which was given to them, to act against their own countrymen, rather than the real enemies of their country." Napoleon Bonaparte

Jean-Claude Juncker | step by step until there is no turning back

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"We decide on something, leave it lying around, and wait and see what happens. If no one kicks up a fuss, because most people don't understand what has been decided, we continue step by step until there is no turning back." Jean-Claude Juncker

Hannah Arendt | The real goal of totalitarian ideology

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“The real goal of totalitarian ideology is not the transformation of the external conditions of human existence and not the revolutionary reorganization of the social order, but the transformation of human nature itself, which, as it is, constantly opposes the totalitarian process. … What is at stake in total domination is really the essence of man.” Hannah Arendt