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Frank Zappa Quote

“Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.”

— Frank Zappa

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You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.

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Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.

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If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.

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One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds.

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Without deviation progress is not possible.

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There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.

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