"Blessed be the Lord for the beauty of summer and spring, for the air, the water, the verdure, and the song of birds."

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Carl Linnaeus

#Summer Quotes #Song Quotes #Spring Quotes

“I think if you open the door to government control of television, then you let in a host of questions about rights.”
“I don't think I'm a great songwriter, but I think I've learned a lot about it, and I don't think there's any one way to do it. I don't think I can control it at all. I can just kind of hope that it happens.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“As far as I'm concerned, an audience is an audience. Whether it's an audience in Hull or the National Theatre, that's who you play to. It's not money - it's good to get some, but that's not why I do it. You do it because you have to, to tell a story.”
“My notion of art is very maximalist and souped-up: I love spectacle, overload, magic materials, magic words, incantation and litany, incarnation and possession, spilling and wounds. Art as a sacred event.”

Source : "'Art as a sacred event'". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. April 7, 2015.
“Those who first introduced compulsory education into American life knew exactly why children should go to school and learn to read: to save their souls.... Consistent with this goal, the first book written and printed for children in America was titled Spiritual Milk for Boston Babes in either England, drawn from the Breasts of both Testaments for their Souls' Nourishment.”
“It's likely that CO2 has some warming effect, but real proof of that hypothesis is tricky. You have to confirm by observation exactly how the CO2 changes the situation at different altitudes in the atmosphere and in different regions of the world. For example, CO2 is supposed to warm the upper air faster than the surface, but the measurements don't show that happening. When the CO2 effect is eventually pinned down, it will probably turn out to be weaker and much less worrisome than predicted by the global warming theorists.”
“As a guiding principle, life shrinks and life expands in direct proportion to your willingness to assume risk.”
“You see me, I wanted to be fashion designer. I became fashion designer. So I think that everything is possible.”

Source : "Michael Phelps' Top 5 Fundamentals for Pulling Off the Impossible" by Henrik Edberg, www.positivityblog.com. August 22, 2008.

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