"The British have turned their sense of humour into a national virtue. It is odd, because through much of history, humour has been considered cheap, and laughter something for the lower orders. But British aristocrats didn't care a damn about what people thought of them, so they made humour acceptable."

-- Theodore Zeldin

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“Music is a science which should have definite rules; these rules should be drawn from an evident principle; and this principle cannot really be known to us without the aid of mathematics.”

Source : Jean-Philippe Rameau (1971). “Traite de l'harmonie reduites a ses principes naturels”, p.35, Courier Corporation
“Wounded Warriors tell me they're not just going to walk again, they're going to run, and they're going to run marathons!”
“The only people who make love all the time are liars.”

Source : "Fictional character: Gaston Lachaille". "Gigi", www.imdb.com. 1958.
“And the one job my father knew of, that he'd had experience of himself, was the Army, so he could help me in that direction.”
“There is a lot of melody and things that sound familiar in hundreds of songs.”
“When I see the Bill Shankly statue, I look at the sentiment on the base. It says: 'He made the people happyâ€™. Well now the modern Liverpool is making the fans and the city happy. And that makes me so proud.”
“Jordan is many different things and there's many different parts of it. We don't ever really get to see a modern Arab city, a part of the Arab world where people are seemingly living their lives like everywhere else and also just a part of the Arab world that's surprisingly Americanized, with fast-food joints everywhere and shopping malls. Over the 30 years I've been traveling there, I really saw it grow and become modernized and much more Americanized in a way that surprised me as an Arab-American.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“The Galapagos Islands are probably the most famous wildlife-watching destination in the world. And no wonder - it's almost impossible to exaggerate the sheer spectacle of the place that provided inspiration for Charles Darwin's ground-breaking theory of natural selection.”

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