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It would be enough for me to have the system of a jury of twelve versus the system of one judge as a basis for preferring the U. S. to the Soviet Union.... I would prefer the country you can leave to the country you cannot.
—Joseph Brodsky (b. 1940)
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The appalling power with which metaphors of sexual lust illuminate the nature of war, and vice versa, proves that they are based on millennia of human experience. The poets of all time have used these figures. To conquer and loot a country is to rape it: to violate a woman is to conquer her by force and plunder her of her treasure. The violence that attends sex when it is unmitigated by love, and the sexual excesses that have attended war and been its aftermath, are the psychological and historical demonstrations of the consanguinity of the two.
—Harold C. Goddard (1878–1950)
Country Music - The Soulful Rhythms ... Country music is a remarkably enticing genre of music that focuses on the melodies and the rhythms. It is identified by its immensely mellifluous tones and upbeat numbers...