"I think, for one thing, all of us remember those teenage years and those songs that we fell in love with and the music scene that we were part of. So, in a certain way, music cuts through time like almost nothing else. You know, it makes us feel like we're back in an earlier moment."

-- Jennifer Egan

#Love Quotes #Song Quotes #Teenage Quotes

“I believe that there is a fundamental mystery in my existence, transcending any biological account of the development of my body (including my brain) with its genetic inheritance and its evolutionary origin. ... I cannot believe that this wonderful gift of a conscious existence has no further future, no possibility of another existence under some other unimaginable conditions.”

Source : "Facing Reality : Philosophical Adventures by a Brain Scientist" by John Carew Eccles, (p. 83), 1970.
“And where does the power come from, to see the race to its end? From within.”

Source : "Fictional character: Eric Liddell". "Chariots of Fire", www.imdb.com. 1981.
“Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in.”

Source : Billy Sunday, William Thomas Ellis (1917). “Billy Sunday, the Man and His Message: With His Own Words which Have Won Thousands for Christ”
“I really like Billie Holiday's husky voice, and I'd definitely like to find out more about her.”

Source : Interview with Luke Bainbridge, www.theguardian.com. August 20, 2005.
“A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.”
“We Americans, or half of Americans, think health care is a commodity. Other countries view health care as a social service that should be collectively financed and available to everyone on equal terms. My wife and I just interviewed the German minister of health, and it was an exhilarating experience, because it was a totally different language. It was obviously important that everyone should have the same deal in health care.”
“Happy indeed is the scientist who not only has the pleasures which I have enumerated, but who also wins the recognition of fellow scientists and of the mankind which ultimately benefits from his endeavors.”
“You thought I was that type: that you could forget me, and that I'd plead and weep and throw myself under the hooves of a bay mare, or that I'd ask the sorcerers for some magic potion made from roots and send you a terrible gift: my precious perfumed handkerchief. Damn you! I will not grant your cursed soul vicarious tears or a single glance. And I swear to you by the garden of the angels, I swear by the miracle-working ikon, and by the fire and smoke of our nights: I will never come back to you.”

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