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Lawrence Durrell quote: "Music is only love looking for words."

Music is only love looking for words.

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When we got down from the ambulances there were sharp cracks about us as bursts of shrapnel splashed down upon the Town Hall square. Dead soldiers lay outside and I glanced at them coldly. We were in search of the living. Philip Gibbs
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James J. Gibson quote: "The meaning or value of a thing consists of what it affords."
The meaning or value of a thing consists of what it affords. James J. Gibson
A terrible crisis unquestionably has arisen in the Church. In the ministry of evangelical churches are to be found hosts of those who reject the gospel of Christ. By the equivocal use of traditional phrases, by the representation of differences of opinion as though they were only differences about the interpretation of the Bible, entrance into the Church was secured for those who are hostile to the very foundations of the faith. John Gresham Machen
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A love of books, of holding a book, turning its pages, looking at its pictures, and living its fascinating stories goes hand-in-hand with a love of learning. Laura Bush
Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience. Ambrose Bierce
Charlie Chaplin quote: "More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness"
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To the philosophers of India, however, Relativity is no new discovery, just as the concept of light years is no matter for astonishment to people used to thinking of time in millions of kalpas, (A kalpa is about 4,320,000 years). The fact that the wise men of India have not been concerned with technological applications of this knowledge arises from the circumstance that technology is but one of innumerable ways of applying it. Alan Watts
Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance. Saint Augustine
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As an Italian-American, I have a special responsibility to be sensitive to ethnic stereotypes. Al D'Amato
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We can't really make a living doing comic books, despite the fact that would be an awfully fun way to make a living. Erich Hoeber
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Banal words function as a feeble phenomena that fall into their own mental bogs of meaning. Robert Smithson
This is the pre-verbal language that linguists call Mentalese. Hardly a language, more a matrix of shifting patterns, consolidating and compressing meaning in fractions of a second, and blending it inseparably with its distinctive emotional hue. ... So that when a flash of red streaks in across his left peripheral vision ... it already has the quality of an idea ... unexpected and dangerous, but entirely his, and not of the world beyond himself. Ian Mcewan
E. M. Forster quote: "Nonsense and beauty have close connections."
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