"In common use almost every word has many shades of meaning, and therefore needs to be interpreted by the context."

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Source : Alfred Marshall (1977). “Principles of Economics: An Introductory Volume”

Alfred Marshall

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“When you think of how history is revealed, we know certain things to be facts at certain periods of time, which turn out not to be so factual as time marches on.”
“My brother is like, "You are a Victoria's Secret Angel?" He cannot believe it. When I told him the first time he was like, "You? On that catwalk?" So it's such an amazing surprise for me in my career to be able to do this.”

Source : Source: www.harpersbazaar.com
“The worship of words is more pernicious than the worship of images. Grammatolatry is the worst species of idolatry.”

Source : Robert Dale Owen (1871). “The Debatable Land Between this World and the Next: With Illustrative Narrations”, p.102
“Music has always been important to me. Rhythm, in particular, features in most of the things I do. I stumbled recently upon an old notebook in which I'd written, 'Touch, timing and timbre... keys to the heart.' That just about says it all.”
“Easter occurs on different dates each year because, like the Jewish Passover, it is based upon the vernal equinox, that dramatic moment when the hours of the day-light and the hours of darkness at last draw parallel and then the light finally and triumphantly wins out. Thus Easter is always fixed as the first Sunday after the first full moon following the spring equinox. It's a cosmic, solar, and lunar event as deeply rooted in religious traditions originating from sun-god worship as one could conceivably imagine.”
“I get way down in the music / Down inside the music ...”
“The catch phrase for the day is 'Do an act of kindness. Help one person smile.'”
“I love you more than yesterday, less than tomorrow.”

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