[An intellectual] is someone who can listen to the “William Tell Overture” without thinking of the Lone Ranger. – John Chesson
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Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars. – Gustave Flaubert
What I think is fair to say is that, coming out of the Republican camp, there have been efforts to suggest that perhaps Im not who I say I am when it comes to my faith – something which I find deeply offensive, and that has been going on for a pretty long time. – Barack Obama
The Nautilus was piercing the water with its sharp spur, after having accomplished nearly ten thousand leagues in three months and a half, a distance greater than the great circle of the earth. Where were we going now, and what was reserved for the future? – Jules Verne
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