"Shaw does not merely decorate a proposition, but makes his way from point to point through new and difficult territory. This explains why Shaw must either be taken whole or left alone. He must be disassembled and put together again with nothing left out, under pain of incomprehension; for his politics, his art, and his religion to say nothing of the shape of his sentences are unique expressions of this enormously enlarged and yet concentrated consciousness."

-- Jacques Barzun

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“Its okay, Beth.I don't want my life to go back to the way it was before i met you.I thought i had it all,but really i was missing something. feel like a completely different person now.This might sound corny,but i feel like i've been asleep for a long time and you've just woken me up...”

Source : Alexandra Adornetto (2010). “Halo”, p.236, Macmillan
“That's happened a couple times: Billy Joel. It was just, "You sound like Billy Joel." And I get really upset about that. No offense to that guy, but it's not for me.”
“I'm very competitive; it's not enough just to have a few number ones. I want to have 200.”
“He who is harmony with Nature hits the mark without effort and apprehends the truth without thinking.”
“There's many reason music exists and we are beginning to no only understand that, but measure that.”
“Too many Americans go to too many prisons for far too long, and for no truly good law enforcement reason.”

Source : "Eric Holder seeks to cut mandatory minimum drug sentences" by Dan Merica, Evan Perez, www.cnn.com. August 12, 2013.
“I am climbing a difficult road; but the glory gives me strength.”

Source : "Elegies, IV". Book by Sextus Propertius, poem 10. 3,
“It's better to have done because then you know what the player is going through and you understand the pressure, but then on the other hand I know a lot of people that were good players but not good coaches, and vice versa.”

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