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“THIS DREAM OF LIFE BEGAN with my first friends, my mum and my dad.”
― Billy Idol, Dancing with Myself

“As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion,—as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquility, of Mussulmen [Muslims],—and as the said States never entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mahometan [Mohammedan] nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.

[Adams submitted and signed the Treaty of Tripoli, 1797]”
― John Adams, Thoughts on government applicable to the present state of the American colonies.: Philadelphia, Printed by John Dunlap, M,DCC,LXXXVI.

“The mundane, agonizing details of life build and build like bricks. Soon we are too weary of wrestling with our everyday existence to entertain grand visions of destiny.”
― John S. Lynch, The cure

“The English poet Alexander Pope said, “An excuse is worse than a lie, for an excuse is a lie, guarded.”
― Billy Idol, Dancing with Myself