"Knowledge of the name gives him who knows it mastery even over the being and will of the god."

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Source : Ernst Cassirer (2012). “Language and Myth”, p.48, Courier Corporation

Ernst Cassirer

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“I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is the language I don't understand.”
“Give us the strength, give us the wisdom, and give us tomorrow.”

Source : Song: Showdown At Big Sky, Album: Robbie Robertson
“People say I train dogs, but in many ways I train people.”
“Creativity arises out of the state of thoughtless presence in which you are much more awake than when you are engrossed in thinking.”
“The music has to be affordable. It's the common man that keeps it going, and if you price it out of his realm, it becomes a thing of the elite.”
“I've found you can go on writing in the dark, and that the act of writing itself, that mysterious, dangerous, intoxicating, absorbing, nourishing magician's trick, that act of creation is its own light.”
“The tree of life knows that, whatever happens, the warm music spinning around it will never stop. However much death may come, however much blood may flow, the music will dance men and women as long as the air breaths them and the land plows and loves them.”
“Don't be afraid to lose. Listen. And always invest in yourself.”

Source : "Pitbull: 5 surprising facts about the superstar" By Lisa Respers France, www.cnn.com. June 21, 2014.

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