"So there is a personal sense of style for a given work - I don't like a general style, but every work has its own style, and I want to create a style for every work."

-- Karlheinz Stockhausen

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“I ain't one of those who believe that a half knowledge of a subject is useless, but it has been my experience that when a fellow has that half knowledge he finds it's the other half which would really come in handy.”
“Science, you don't know, looks like magic.”

Source : "Fluke, or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings". Book by Christopher Moore, 2003.
“Let us love silence till the world is made to die in our hearts. Let us always remember death, and in this thought draw near to God in our heart - and the pleasures of this world will have our scorn.”
“As I tell people about genocide, I get the opportunity to redeem myself. Iâ€™ve had the chance to do something thatâ€™s worth me being alive... The more I tell people, the less the nightmares haunt me.”

Source : Loung Ung (2012). “First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers”, Random House
“Society doesn't need newspapers. What we need is journalism...When we shift our attention from 'save newspapers' to 'save society,' the imperative changes from 'preserve the current institutions' to 'do whatever works.' And what works today isn't the same as what used to work.”
“I wanted to be a poet when I was 20; I had no interest in fiction or biography and precious little interest in history, but those three elements in my life have become the most important.”
“Time is a dream ... a destroying dream; It lays great cities in dust, it fills the seas; It covers the face of beauty, and tumbles walls.”

Source : Conrad Aiken (1920). “The House of Dust: A Symphony”
“By the Law of Slavery, man, created in the image of God, is divested of the human character, and declared to be a mere chattel.”

Source : Charles Sumner (2016). “The Complete Works of Charles Sumner”, p.1444, Library of Alexandria

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