"Notice that tearing oneself out of the insensible state is the opposite of remaining in it; the man who is beneficent from duty nevertheless acts with feelings, if not with empirical inclinations."

-- Allen W. Wood

#Men Quotes #Opposites Quotes #Feelings Quotes

“There is no impossibility to him who stands prepared to conquer every hazard. The fearful are the failing.”
“It is only comparatively primitive machinery that affords a stimulus, and there is already a faint period touch about Pacific 231 and Le Pas d'Acier. One feels...that Prokofieff should have written ballets about the spinning jenny and the Luddite riots; that Honegger should have been there to celebrate the opening of the Stockton and Darlington Railway and the death of Huskisson with a "Symphonie Triomphale et FunÃ¨bre".”

Source : "Music, Ho!". Book by Constant Lambert, Hogarth Press edition, "Mechanical Romanticism", pp. 209-10, 1934.
“I had to live and breathe Margaret Thatcher for a few months. I totally engulfed myself in her life. I read her autobiography and a biography, 'The Grocer's Daughter.'”
“In theology we must consider the predominance of authority; in philosophy the predominance of reason.”
“Political Islam is not a homogeneous bloc.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“Let's say I'm at a party and I don't like the feeling I'm getting, I'll just leave. Why do I have to be there?”
“Nobody wanted to win more than I did. Nobody !”
“I rarely plan my research; it plans me.”

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