"Mozart began his works in childhood and a childlike quality lurked in his compositions until it dawned on him that the Requiem he was writing for s a stranger was his own."

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Source : Will Durant, Ariel Durant (1967). “Rousseau and Revolution: A History of Civilization in France, England, and Germany from 1756, and in the Remainder of Europe from 1715 to 1789”

Ariel Durant

#Writing Quotes #Childhood Quotes #Quality Quotes

“[Our] first and foremost duty [is] to seek the Lord until we open the path of communication from God to our own soul.”
“I grew up in Harlem. My grandmother was one of the best cooks around, but the first thing she did on Sunday mornings when she started cooking a daylong meal was to take a big block of lard from the back of the refrigerator and throw it into the pan. I know how Hispanics buy their food, and it is not always nutritious.”
“I never kept up with the fashions. I believed in wearing what I thought looked good on me.”

Source : FaceBook post by Bettie Page from Feb 04, 2014
“Discard your former slave-master's names and be willing and ready to accept one of Allah's Pure and Righteous Names that He Alone will give our people from His Own Mouth! A good name is, indeed, better than gold.”
“In my pictures, you never know, thatâ€™s the mystery. Itâ€™s just a suggestion and you leave it to the audience to put what they want on it. Itâ€™s fashion in disguise.”
“Buy a condom, ribbed for her pleasure. Turn it inside out, now it's ribbed for your pleasure.”
“I usually have my protein at lunch and my carbs at night - I don't mix protein and carbs.”
“Business isn't some disembodied bloodless enterprise. Profit is fine - a sign that the customer honors the value of what we do. But "enterprise" ( a lovely word ) is about heart. About beauty. It's about art. About people throwing themselves on the line. It's about passion and the selfless pursuit of an ideal.”

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